Definition of "Voldemort"

Voldemort

noun
plural Voldemorts
1. An evil, harmful, or widely feared person or thing.
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  […] Oscar has been called the Voldemort of Fleet Street by both friends and enemies. He was apparently ruthless in all his business dealings.'
  2012, G. M. Malliet, A Fatal Winter‎, Constable & Robinson, published 2012
  If you asked me to identify a Voldemort in the myth of “social media,” it would be these people, and not guys like Gary Vaynerchuk.
  2012, B. J. Mendelson, Social Media Is Bullshit‎, St. Martin's Press, published 2012
  Fructose is the Voldemort of the metabolic syndrome pandemic: stealthy, ever-present, and bad for the common good.
  2013, Robert H. Lustig, Heather Millar, & Cindy Gershen, The Fat Chance Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes Ready in Under 30 Minutes to Help You Lose the Sugar and the Weight‎, Hudson Street Press, published 2013
verb
third-person singular simple present Voldemorts, present participle Voldemorting, simple past and past participle Voldemorted
1. (transitive) To avoid naming someone or something directly; to use circumlocution.
  Quotations
  PhD candidate and attendee NatalieZed (2015a, 2015b) instead Voldemorted the hashtag by using #Deatheaters – a term for Voldemort’s supporters, also from the Harry Potter novels – to refer to Gamergate harassers: […]
  2018 August, Emily van der Nagel, “‘Networks that work too well’: intervening in algorithmic connections”, in Media International Australia, volume 168, number 1, page 88
  “We don't speak Daphne's name in this house,” Kaya explains to me. Jee-zus. One measly stomach pumping and poor Daphne gets Voldemorted? The Kappa Beta Nu chapter of Briar University is evidently a lot stricter than the Brown chapter.
  2018, Elle Kennedy, The Chase, Elle Kennedy Inc.
  Voldemorting is the anti-SEO, the anti-keyword, and the anti-hashtag. It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.
  2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in Wired‎
  You two Voldemorted the sexual tension between you. You took the power out of it. Like, hey, we both have pants feelings for each other. Let's stop pretending we don't and deal with it so we can stop being so freaked out about it.
  2021, Roni Loren, Yes & I Love You‎, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  Voldemorting is the tactic of not mentioning the name, keyword, hashtag or handle you are talking about because you don't want them to know you are talking about them.
  2021, Nicholas Carah, Media and Society: Power, Platforms, and Participation‎, SAGE

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Voldemort

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