Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to emvowel
Participle: emvowelled
Gerund: emvowelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | emvowel |
| you | emvowel |
| he;she;it | emvowels |
| we | emvowel |
| you | emvowel |
| they | emvowel |
Perfect
| I | have emvowelled |
| you | have emvowelled |
| he;she;it | has emvowelled |
| we | have emvowelled |
| you | have emvowelled |
| they | have emvowelled |
Past
| I | emvowelled |
| you | emvowelled |
| he;she;it | emvowelled |
| we | emvowelled |
| you | emvowelled |
| they | emvowelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had emvowelled |
| you | had emvowelled |
| he;she;it | had emvowelled |
| we | had emvowelled |
| you | had emvowelled |
| they | had emvowelled |
Future
| I | will emvowel |
| you | will emvowel |
| he;she;it | will emvowel |
| we | will emvowel |
| you | will emvowel |
| they | will emvowel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have emvowelled |
| you | will have emvowelled |
| he;she;it | will have emvowelled |
| we | will have emvowelled |
| you | will have emvowelled |
| they | will have emvowelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | emvowel |
| you | emvowel |
| he;she;it | emvowel |
| we | emvowel |
| you | emvowel |
| they | emvowel |
Perfect
| I | have emvowelled |
| you | have emvowelled |
| he;she;it | have emvowelled |
| we | have emvowelled |
| you | have emvowelled |
| they | have emvowelled |
Imperfect
| I | emvowelled |
| you | emvowelled |
| he;she;it | emvowelled |
| we | emvowelled |
| you | emvowelled |
| they | emvowelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had emvowelled |
| you | had emvowelled |
| he;she;it | had emvowelled |
| we | had emvowelled |
| you | had emvowelled |
| they | had emvowelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would emvowel |
| you | would emvowel |
| he;she;it | would emvowel |
| we | would emvowel |
| you | would emvowel |
| they | would emvowel |
Perfect
| I | would have emvowelled |
| you | would have emvowelled |
| he;she;it | would have emvowelled |
| we | would have emvowelled |
| you | would have emvowelled |
| they | would have emvowelled |
Imperative
| you | emvowel |
| we | Let's emvowel |
| you | emvowel |
Verbs conjugated like 'emvowel'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'emvowel'
embowel,
embower,
embowl,
empower,
imbowel,
bowel,
dowel,
emboil,
embow,
emmove,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Coined by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as a jocular alteration of embowel (“disembowel”).
Sample Sentences
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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 December 26, Henry Fielding, The Gentleman's Magazine, London, page 579, column 2:]
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Finally, to judge whether ſhe is abſolutely cried up as a BEAUTY, we muſt conſult the wooden regiſters, the benches in the public walks, and the window-panes in coffee-houſes and taverns; where you'll be ſure to ſee her name in acroſticks, or either emvowel'd, or written in full length, accompanied with the moſt emphatical endearing expreſſions. [1751, The Student: Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Oxford, page 257:]
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I ſhall not encroach on the Old Baily Patriot in his priviledge of emvowelling, daſhing, aſterizing, and italicizing. [1752 January 16, Bonnell Thornton, Have At You All: or, The Drury-Lane Journal, London, page 13:]
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I reprobate the bold practice of licentiouly printing names at full length, without as much as modeſtly embowelling, or rather emvowelling them, or pleaſantly holding their owners in greater deriſion by a contemptuous alteration of them[.] [1762 November 26, The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, London, page 590, column 2:]
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Yes—it ſtands forth to public view,
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Within, without, on white, on blue,
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In proper, tall, gigantic Letters,
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Not daſh'd—emvowell'd—like my betters. [1763 February 26, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, London: W. Flexney, page 374:]
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But this barbarous custom of emvowelling words, is now quite exploded, in prose at least, by the best authors. [1775, Richard Wynne, “Appendix”, in An Universal Grammar, London, page 122:]
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Fielding is let off lightly with a running comment on his misspellings and other peculiarities of style—deliberate punning and emvoweling. [1915, Gerard Edward Jensen, “Introduction”, in The Covent Garden Journal, volume I, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 69:]