Hyphenation of swimming

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

swim-ming

Definitions of swimming:

1.	The act of swimming It was the swimming they enjoyed most: they took a short swim in the pool
2.	Travel through water We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore A big fish was swimming in the tank
3.	Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
4.	Be dizzy or giddy My brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne
5.	Be covered with or submerged in a liquid The meat was swimming in a fatty gravy
6.	Move as if gliding through water This snake swims through the soil where it lives
7.	Filled or brimming with tears Swimming eyes Sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
8.	Applied to a fish depicted horizontally

Synonyms of swimming:

adj	liquid, watery, tearful
adj	naiant, horizontal
noun	swim, water sport, aquatics

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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.