diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/javadoc/JavadocLexer.java b/core/src/main/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/javadoc/JavadocLexer.java
index c34b4f583..6205f36c2 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/javadoc/JavadocLexer.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/javadoc/JavadocLexer.java
@@ -447,6 +447,16 @@ private static ImmutableList<Token> joinAdjacentLiteralsAndAdjacentWhitespace(Li
         continue;
       }
 
+      if (seenWhitespace.contains("\n")
+          && !hasMultipleNewlines(seenWhitespace)
+          && isHyphenatedWordEnd(accumulated)
+          && tokens.peek() instanceof Literal literal
+          && isWordStart(literal.value())
+          && !isSuspendedHyphenConjunction(literal.value())) {
+        accumulated.append(tokens.next().value());
+        continue;
+      }
+
       output.add(new Literal(accumulated.toString()));
       accumulated.setLength(0);
 
@@ -457,13 +467,26 @@ private static ImmutableList<Token> joinAdjacentLiteralsAndAdjacentWhitespace(Li
       // We have another token coming. Leave it for the next iteration.
     }
 
-    /*
-     * TODO(cpovirk): Another case where we could try to join tokens is if a line ends with
-     * /[^ -]-/, as in "non-\nblocking."
-     */
     return output.build();
   }
 
+  private static boolean isHyphenatedWordEnd(CharSequence cs) {
+    int length = cs.length();
+    return length >= 2 && cs.charAt(length - 1) == '-' && isWordChar(cs.charAt(length - 2));
+  }
+
+  private static boolean isWordChar(char c) {
+    return Character.isLetterOrDigit(c) || c == '_';
+  }
+
+  private static boolean isWordStart(String s) {
+    return !s.isEmpty() && isWordChar(s.charAt(0));
+  }
+
+  private static boolean isSuspendedHyphenConjunction(String s) {
+    return s.equals("and") || s.equals("or");
+  }
+
   private static String consumeAdjacentWhitespace(PeekingIterator<Token> tokens) {
     StringBuilder seenWhitespace = new StringBuilder();
     while (tokens.peek() instanceof Whitespace) {
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/JavadocFormattingTest.java b/core/src/test/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/JavadocFormattingTest.java
index 1fc5d0b74..a5f7dae36 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/JavadocFormattingTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/com/google/googlejavaformat/java/JavadocFormattingTest.java
@@ -2571,6 +2571,58 @@ class Test {}
     doFormatTest(input, expected);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void hyphenatedLineBreakJoined() {
+    String input =
+        """
+        /**
+         * This calculation requires an infinite-
+         * precision number.
+         */
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    String expected =
+        """
+        /** This calculation requires an infinite-precision number. */
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    doFormatTest(input, expected);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void suspendedHyphenPreserved() {
+    String input =
+        """
+        /**
+         * Both pre-
+         * and post-processing steps.
+         */
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    String expected =
+        """
+        /** Both pre- and post-processing steps. */
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    doFormatTest(input, expected);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void markdownHyphenatedLineBreakJoined() {
+    String input =
+        """
+        /// This calculation requires an infinite-
+        /// precision number.
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    String expected =
+        """
+        /// This calculation requires an infinite-precision number.
+        class Test {}
+        """;
+    doFormatTest(input, expected);
+  }
+
   // TODO: b/346668798 - Test the following Markdown constructs, and make the tests work as needed.
   // We can assume that the CommonMark parser correctly handles Markdown, so the question is whether
   // they are subsequently mishandled by our formatting logic. So for example the CommonMark parser