disemvowelment

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of disembowelment +‎ vowel.

Noun[edit]

disemvowelment (uncountable)

  1. The act of disemvoweling.
    • 2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Ms. Hayden has been credited with one of the more creative online responses to nasty commentators – disemvowelment, the removal of all the vowels from a post. Not quite censorship, but not exactly unfettered commentary, either.