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Hyphenation for “sick”

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What is the correct hyphenation for “sick”? The purpose of hyphenation is to separate a word such as "sick" because otherwise it would be too long and would no longer fit on one line. This separation not only saves space it improves the visually flow of the text. This word separation exists in most languages. In English, the word separation of “sick” is based on the speech syllables. The separating syllable in linguistics is therefore the smallest group of sounds in the natural flow of speech. As a separator, the classic hyphen is usually used: „sick“ ⟶ „sick“.

Hyphens are occasionally used to denote syllabification, as in syl-la-bi-fi-ca-tion. Various British and North American dictionaries use an interpunct, sometimes called a "middle dot" or "hyphenation point", for this purpose, as in syl·la·bi·fi·ca·tion. This allows the hyphen to be reserved only for places where a hard hyphen is intended (for example, self-con·scious, un·self-con·scious, long-stand·ing). Similarly, hyphens may be used to indicate how a word is being or should be spelled. For example, W-O-R-D spells "word".

Definitions of "sick"

sick >> sɪk

Definition: [adjective] affected by physical or mental illness.
Example: nursing very sick children

Synonyms of "sick"

ill | unwell | poorly | ailing | indisposed | laid up | bad | out of sorts | not oneself | off | off colour | under the weather | on the sick list | crook | crappy |

Definition: [adjective] feeling nauseous and wanting to vomit.
Example: he was starting to feel sick

Synonyms of "sick"

nauseous | nauseated | queasy | bilious | sick to one's stomach | green | green around the gills | seasick | carsick | airsick | travel-sick | suffering from motion sickness | about to throw up | barfy | qualmish |

Definition: [adjective] intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them.
Example: I'm absolutely sick of your moods

Synonyms of "sick"

fed up with | bored with/by | tired of | weary of | jaded with/by | surfeited with/by | satiated with | glutted with/by | have had enough of | have had a basinful of | have had it up to here with | have had something up to here |

Definition: [adjective] (especially of humour) having something unpleasant such as death or misfortune as its subject and dealing with it in an offensive way.
Example: this was someone's idea of a sick joke

Synonyms of "sick"

macabre | black | ghoulish | morbid | perverted | gruesome | sadistic | cruel | offensive |

Definition: [adjective] excellent.

Synonyms of "sick"

Definition: [noun] vomit.
Example: she was busy wiping sick from the carpet

Synonyms of "sick"

Definition: [verb] bring something up by vomiting.
Example: he was passing blood and sicking it up

Synonyms of "sick"