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DEFENESTRATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defenestration mean?
• DEFENESTRATION (noun)
The noun DEFENESTRATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
Familiarity information: DEFENESTRATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of throwing someone or something out of a window
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("defenestration" is a kind of...):
ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance (the act of forcing out someone or something)
Derivation:
defenestrate (throw through or out of the window)
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