disemvowel

1. (transitive, sometimes humorous) To remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.Examples: "By the way, what has become of the conspiracy of Brander Matthews et als to disemvowel the English language? Not that it matters."; "The trick will be in usurping as many vowels as you can, thus disemvoweling the others, and the one with the most words when all or as many letters as possible are used up wins."; ""What happened?" the Amigoid asked. / "D'nt knw," she said. "Jst wk p nd hrd y tw tlkng n thn, sddnly nd wtht wrnng, thr ws ths ns." / "What?" Robotech_Master asked. / "I think I know what happened," Lawrence said. "It must be part of the Silliness that's infecting the Author's Altiverse." / "S wht hppnd? / "You've been disemvoweled," the Amigoid informed her."humoroussometimestransitive