disemvowelment en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of disembowelment + vowel.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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 You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times: