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disemvowelment

disemvowelment noun: the act of disemvoweling.

Noun

disemvowelment (uncountable)

  1. The act of disemvoweling.
    • 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.2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times

Origin of disemvowelment

Blend of disembowelment + vowel.

Questions about disemvowelment

What does disemvowelment mean?
Disemvowelment means the act of disemvoweling.
What part of speech is disemvowelment?
Disemvowelment is a noun.

Words near disemvowelment in the dictionary

  1. disemvowel
  2. disemvoweled
  3. disemvoweling
  4. disemvowelled
  5. disemvowelling
  6. disemvowelment
  7. disemvowels
  8. disenable
  9. disenabled
  10. disenables
  11. disenabling

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