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DEFENESTRATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw through or out of the window

Example:

The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "defenestrate" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)

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