Hyphenation of protrusion

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word protrusion? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pro-tru-sion

Definitions of protrusion:

1.	Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings The gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge The hump of a camel He stood on the rocky prominence The occipital protuberance was well developed The bony excrescence between its horns
2.	The act of projecting out from something

Synonyms of protrusion:

noun	bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence, projection
noun	projection, jut, jutting, change of shape

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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