Definition of "hyphenating" [hyphenating]

• Present participle of hyphenate. (verb)

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• "I think that hyphenating is long and confusing and that keeping my maiden name would have been confusing to the kids and everyone else."
• "Silverberg likes adding one word to another word hyphenating and creating something which is familiar but not familiar."
• "They were only the midnight pranks of mischievous boys, such as hyphenating the livery-stable's name "Le Tellier" to read "Letel-Liar," drawing his "hacks" to the doors of the citizens, placing the undertaker's sign over the physician's office, driving Mr. Schéle's ponies, and leaving on their flanks the painted words "So far for to-day," the phrase with which he invariably ended his lectures."