syllabificating
adjEtymology First attested in 1968; formed as syllabificat(ion) + -ing; compare the later syllabificate.
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Nonstandard, Rare That denotes syllabic breaks.
- A record on one card consists of letter expression as an entry, phonemic expression (with stress mark and syllabificating mark if the word is polysyllabic), and possible functions of the word.1968, Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Acoustics (Elsevier Pub. Co.), volumes 1–3, page B-156