Definitions
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- verb transitive, humorous To remove the
vowels from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lefty blogs love to 'disemvowel' commenters for varying too far from the party line, be it Iraq, climate change, or the One.
Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear. Ann Althouse 2008
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Wow looks like the host is getting good use of his disemvowel program.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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Funny how you did not disemvowel the aforementioned post.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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[Moderator's note: I have disemvoweled a part of this post, consistent with version 1.3 of the comments policy, which states "I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names, or even to a single site under multiple names or linked terms."]
Discourse.net: Really Useful and Obscure Computer CPU Info 2009
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I will delete (or disemvowel) comments that are duplicative, commercial, needlessly foul or mean or otherwise inappropriately offensive.
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Tell you the truth, and I must be careful because Professor Froomkin will certainly disemvowel me if I go to far, but let me tell you, young'un:
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Instead of deleting a post, I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names.
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I will delete (or disemvowel) comments that are duplicative, commercial, needlessly foul or mean or otherwise inappropriately offensive.
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A better question is whether I should go back and disemvowel the post you were kind enough to reprint (and your reprinting of it), but that horse seems to have bolted the barn some time ago, so I'm not sure I see the point.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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Instead of deleting a post, I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names, or even to a single site under multiple names or linked terms.
tankexmortis commented on the word disemvowel
Vry clvr.
Srry. Bd jk, knw. Cldn't hlp mslf.
December 3, 2006
vanishedone commented on the word disemvowel
Apparently there may be an equivalent word in Arabic.
November 17, 2007
TNH commented on the word disemvowel
Disemvowel (disemvowelled, disemvowelling): to moderate an objectionable comment or passage by removing its vowels. The word was invented on 21 November 2002 by Arthur Hlavaty.
June 11, 2009