DEFENESTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defenestrate mean? 

• DEFENESTRATE (verb)
  The verb DEFENESTRATE has 1 sense:

1. throw through or out of the window

  Familiarity information: DEFENESTRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFENESTRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they defenestrate    ... he / she / it defenestrates   
Past simple: defenestrated   
Past participle: defenestrated   
-ing form: defenestrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throw through or out of the window

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President

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)