"envowel" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "embowel",
        "3": "vowel"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of embowel + vowel",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of embowel + vowel with assimilation the m of embowel to the following v of vowel. Compare to disenvowel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "envowels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "envoweled",
        "pres_ptc2": "envoweling"
      },
      "expansion": "envowel (third-person singular simple present envowels, present participle envowelling or envoweling, simple past and past participle envowelled or envoweled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1747-1748, Henry Fielding, the Jacobite's Journal",
          "text": "In this dress I intend to abuse the *** and the ***; I intend to lash not only the m―stry, but every man who hath any p―ce or p―ns―n from the g―vernm―t, or who is entrusted with any degree of power or trust under it, let his r―nk be ever so high, his f―rt―ne never so great, or his ch―r―cter never good. For this purpose I have provided myself with a quantity of Italian letter, and asterisks of all sorts. And as for all the words which I embowel, or rather envowel, I will never so mangle them but they shall be as well-known as if they retained every vowel in them. This I promise myself, that when I have any meaning they shall understand it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel."
      ],
      "id": "en-envowel-en-verb-QdI0I1x9",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "replace",
          "replace"
        ],
        [
          "portion",
          "portion"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "dash",
          "dash"
        ],
        [
          "printing",
          "printing"
        ],
        [
          "libel",
          "libel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, transitive, humorous, rare) to replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "emvowel"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "humorous",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈvaʊəl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈvaʊl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "envowel"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "embowel",
        "3": "vowel"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of embowel + vowel",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of embowel + vowel with assimilation the m of embowel to the following v of vowel. Compare to disenvowel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "envowels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envowelled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "envoweled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "envoweled",
        "pres_ptc2": "envoweling"
      },
      "expansion": "envowel (third-person singular simple present envowels, present participle envowelling or envoweling, simple past and past participle envowelled or envoweled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊl",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊəl"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1747-1748, Henry Fielding, the Jacobite's Journal",
          "text": "In this dress I intend to abuse the *** and the ***; I intend to lash not only the m―stry, but every man who hath any p―ce or p―ns―n from the g―vernm―t, or who is entrusted with any degree of power or trust under it, let his r―nk be ever so high, his f―rt―ne never so great, or his ch―r―cter never good. For this purpose I have provided myself with a quantity of Italian letter, and asterisks of all sorts. And as for all the words which I embowel, or rather envowel, I will never so mangle them but they shall be as well-known as if they retained every vowel in them. This I promise myself, that when I have any meaning they shall understand it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "replace",
          "replace"
        ],
        [
          "portion",
          "portion"
        ],
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "dash",
          "dash"
        ],
        [
          "printing",
          "printing"
        ],
        [
          "libel",
          "libel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, transitive, humorous, rare) to replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "humorous",
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈvaʊəl/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈvaʊl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "emvowel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "envowel"
}