Hyphenation of douses

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word douses? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

dous-es

Definitions of douses:

1.	Put out, as of a candle or a light Douse the lights
2.	Wet thoroughly
3.	Dip into a liquid He dipped into the pool
4.	Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate Dip the garment into the cleaning solution Dip the brush into the paint
5.	Lower quickly Douse a sail
6.	Slacken Douse a rope
7.	Cover with liquid Pour liquid onto Souse water on his hot face

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.