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- verb Present participle of
disemvowel .
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Examples
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The disemvoweling was my doing but nothing I did recently.
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I recommend banning, or at the very least disemvoweling.
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Similarly. disemvoweling "cleanses" the text by editing the scatologism to a degree that a spell checker couldn't figure it out, but any reader could.
Scatologisms, maledictia, and other fun things joshenglish 2009
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Sorry Go Dems, my brain doesn't do reverse disemvoweling.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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One solution that has proved effective is “disemvoweling” — having message-board administrators remove the vowels from trollish comments, which gives trolls the visibility they crave while muddying their message.
Boing Boing 2008
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Are you quoting from an apology after a disemvoweling?
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My personal favorite innovation is disemvoweling, a technique pioneered by Teresa Nielsen Hayden , who moderates the discussion threads at the geek-culture blog Boing Boing .
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Best of all, because disemvoweling is visible, it trains the community.
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My personal favorite innovation is disemvoweling, a technique pioneered by Teresa Nielsen Hayden , who moderates the discussion threads at the geek-culture blog Boing Boing .
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Best of all, because disemvoweling is visible, it trains the community.
gangerh commented on the word disemvoweling
dn't thnk 'v gt th stmch fr ths.
August 9, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word disemvoweling
M sstr nd sd t tp lk ths ll th tm. Hd mls frm m bss ths wy. t's nt hrd t rd nc y gt sd t t.
Tr t smtm!
August 10, 2008
gangerh commented on the word disemvoweling
Hhh! Nt hd, chnd_br, bt tm cnsmng. Grtngs t yr ss nd yr bss frm gngrh, bthwy. Cnsnnts rl k.
August 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word disemvoweling
We were doing this months ago on another word. Funny how things get buried under layers of humus on Wordie then pop to the surface again.
August 10, 2008