hyphenize
Americanverb (used with object)
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For the same reason do not take refuge, as was the practice a few years since, in German combinations, heart-utterances, soul-sentiments, and hyphenized phrases generally; but roll your thought into one good English word.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
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