DEFENESTRATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they defenestrate ... he / she / it defenestrates

Past simple: defenestrated

Past participle: defenestrated

-ing form: defenestrating

Meaning:

Throw through or out of the window

Example:

The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "defenestrate" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)