v. To divide a word into syllables; to syllabicate; to syllabize.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To form or divide into syllables.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To syllabicate.
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v. divide into syllables
Word Usage
"It proves that this was so since there are only so many ways in which a word may syllabify according to the basic principle of sonority hierarchy, an important concept in phonetics."