Today's Word "defenestrate"
To throw out of a window
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defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\ (transitive verb) - To throw out of a window.
"'And if you can defenestrate you must be able to fenestrate, mustn't you?' she finally said.'Throw yourself back in through a window?'" -- Peter Guttridge, 'No Laughing Matter: A Nick Madrid Mystery'
Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra, "window." The noun form is defenestration.
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