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Today's Word "defenestrate"

To throw out of a window on

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defenestrate \dee-FEN-uh-strayt\ (transitive verb) - To throw out of a window.

"You can't defenestrate every man who proposes to Nefret. It would take too much of your time." -- Elizabeth Peters, 'The Falcon at the Portal'

 

Defenestrate is derived from Latin de-, "out of" + fenestra, "window." The noun form is defenestration.


 

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