English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “lousing”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for lousing is lous-ing, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
lous-ing
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result lous-ing The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Wordlousing
Hyphenationlous-ing
Break points1
Part of speechverb
Pronunciationlaʊs
Meaning & usage

What does “lousing” mean?

lousing: remove lice from.

Headwordlouse
Part of speechverb
Pronunciationlaʊs
1
verb

remove lice from.

Word breaks

How “lousing” is split

lous·ing

For US English, the hyphenation result is lous-ing. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns the same split.

Quick answers

Questions about “lousing”

How do you hyphenate “lousing”?

In the US-English result used here, lousing is hyphenated as lous-ing.

Where can “lousing” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “lousing” mean?

remove lice from.

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