emvowel /ɪmˈvaʊ.əl/ verb1 •(humorous, old-fashioned) To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.And as for all the words I embowel, or rather emvowel, I will never so mangle them, but they shall be all as well known as if they retained every vowel in them. — 1747 formsemvoweled · emvowelled · emvoweling · emvowelling · emvowels