Defenestrate

//dəˈfɛnɪstɹeɪt//

"Defenestrate" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Defenestrate your clock to see how time flies.

I defenestrate you!

The villain threatened to defenestrate the hostages.

During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate the dastardly culprits responsible.

"Defenestrate" is a very uncommon word that people mostly say just to say it.

Defenestrate your computer.

I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!

The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).

Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...

According to the guidebooks, they do it so strenuously that women would very much like to defenestrate the custom.

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This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC, Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)

◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.

2007 May 16, Richard Stallman, speech, Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works, Now of course people who want freedom shouldn't use Windows at all, you've got to defenestrate your computer, which means either you throw Windows out of the computer, or you throw the computer out the window.

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