defenestratev.

Brit.

/(ˌ)diːˈfɛnᵻstreɪt/, U.S.

/diˈfɛnəˌstreɪt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: de- prefix, Latin fenestra , -ate suffix³.

Etymology: < de- prefix + classical Latin fenestra window (see fenestra n.) + -ate suffix³, after defenestration n. Compare earlier defenestrated adj.

1. transitive. Usually humorous. To throw (a person or thing) out of a window. Cf. defenestration n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > eject > from a window

defenestrate1904

1904 Mag. of Art Jan. 125/2 You may still see the windows through which were thrown town councillors and others, ‘defenestrated’ with truly Slav impartiality.

1958 J. C. Herold Mistress to Age (1959) xii. 246 ‘I am like the Irishman who kept coming back until he was thrown out of a fourth-floor window.’ So confident was she of not being defenestrated that she rented a house at 540 rue de Lille.

1974 Publishers Weekly 30 Sept. 52/2 Anne Ramsdell, a brilliant math professor at Oxford,..escapes death by stabbing but is thrown out of her third-story window... Anne meets and falls in love with the man who had defenestrated her at Oxford.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 16 He doesn't get up to defenestrate the television, though. For a start, there isn't space.

2. transitive. Chiefly colloquial. To dismiss, discard, or dispose of (a person or thing); esp. to remove (a person) from a position of power or authority.

ΚΠ

1917 Med. & Surg. Dec. 1040 This does not mean the whole theory of vaccines must be defenestrated.

1920 Freeman 14 Apr. 99/1 They [sc. Italian workers] defenestrate the manager, expropriate the owners, and go on producing the goods just the same.

1959 D. M. Smith Italy lvi. 484 Some..dissident fascists..began..to wonder whether the Allies might..accept them as a new government if they managed to defenestrate Mussolini.

1998 New Yorker 12 Sept. 58/1 Monsignor Franceso Salerno..was charged with reorganizing the library's business and defenestrating Father Boyle.

2013 Observer 3 Feb. 31/1 Margaret Thatcher..was defenestrated and replaced by John Major.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	defenestrate
释义	defenestratev. Brit. /(ˌ)diːˈfɛnᵻstreɪt/, U.S. /diˈfɛnəˌstreɪt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: de- prefix, Latin fenestra , -ate suffix³. Etymology: < de- prefix + classical Latin fenestra window (see fenestra n.) + -ate suffix³, after defenestration n. Compare earlier defenestrated adj. 1. transitive. Usually humorous. To throw (a person or thing) out of a window. Cf. defenestration n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > eject > from a window defenestrate1904 1904 Mag. of Art Jan. 125/2 You may still see the windows through which were thrown town councillors and others, ‘defenestrated’ with truly Slav impartiality. 1958 J. C. Herold Mistress to Age (1959) xii. 246 ‘I am like the Irishman who kept coming back until he was thrown out of a fourth-floor window.’ So confident was she of not being defenestrated that she rented a house at 540 rue de Lille. 1974 Publishers Weekly 30 Sept. 52/2 Anne Ramsdell, a brilliant math professor at Oxford,..escapes death by stabbing but is thrown out of her third-story window... Anne meets and falls in love with the man who had defenestrated her at Oxford. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 16 He doesn't get up to defenestrate the television, though. For a start, there isn't space. 2. transitive. Chiefly colloquial. To dismiss, discard, or dispose of (a person or thing); esp. to remove (a person) from a position of power or authority. ΚΠ 1917 Med. & Surg. Dec. 1040 This does not mean the whole theory of vaccines must be defenestrated. 1920 Freeman 14 Apr. 99/1 They [sc. Italian workers] defenestrate the manager, expropriate the owners, and go on producing the goods just the same. 1959 D. M. Smith Italy lvi. 484 Some..dissident fascists..began..to wonder whether the Allies might..accept them as a new government if they managed to defenestrate Mussolini. 1998 New Yorker 12 Sept. 58/1 Monsignor Franceso Salerno..was charged with reorganizing the library's business and defenestrating Father Boyle. 2013 Observer 3 Feb. 31/1 Margaret Thatcher..was defenestrated and replaced by John Major. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1904
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