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defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb: To throw out of a window.
Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra, "window." The noun form is defenestration.
Some of his apparent chums . . . would still happily defenestrate him if they caught him near a window.
-Andrew Marr, "No option bar the radical one," Independent, 5 July 1994
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
-Lane Smith, Time for Kids, 25 September 1998
A woman, driven to fury by the manner in which her lover prefers to lavish his attention on a match on the telly rather than her, starts to throw his possessions out of the window. He's finally moved to stop her when she tries to defenestrate his new Puma boots.
-Jim White, "Budgets substantial enough to buy most of the clubs in the Endsleigh," Independent, 6 April 1996
EJ (eddiejensen)
Secretary of Silly Walks
defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\, transitive verb: To throw out of a window.
Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra, "window." The noun form is defenestration.
Some of his apparent chums . . . would still happily defenestrate him if they caught him near a window.
-Andrew Marr, "No option bar the radical one," Independent, 5 July 1994
I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!
-Lane Smith, Time for Kids, 25 September 1998
A woman, driven to fury by the manner in which her lover prefers to lavish his attention on a match on the telly rather than her, starts to throw his possessions out of the window. He's finally moved to stop her when she tries to defenestrate his new Puma boots.
-Jim White, "Budgets substantial enough to buy most of the clubs in the Endsleigh," Independent, 6 April 1996
EJ (eddiejensen)
Secretary of Silly Walks