Hyphenation of retaliates

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word retaliates? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

re-tal-i-ates

Definitions of retaliates:

1.	Take revenge for a perceived wrong He wants to avenge the murder of his brother
2.	Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil The Empire strikes back The Giants struck back and won the opener The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing

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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.