Usually means: Throw someone out of window.
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  1. defenestrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. defenestrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defenestrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defenestrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defenestrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. defenestrate: Wordnik
  7. defenestrate: Wiktionary
  8. defenestrate: Dictionary.com
  9. Defenestrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defenestrate: Rhymezone
  11. defenestrate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  12. defenestrate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. defenestrate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. defenestrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. defenestrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defenestrate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defenestrate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defenestrate)

verb:  (transitive) To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
verb:  (transitive) To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
verb:  (computing, transitive, humorous, slang) To remove a Windows operating system from a computer.

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