📚 Defenestrate, verb. 🔉 /diːˈfɛnɪstreɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object • rare): Throw (someone) out of a window. ❗️ Examples: 1. She had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide. 2. Playing the whole album might cause a hungover person to defenestrate themselves. 3. Later in the film, Richard, a gaunt, haggard, disease-ravaged poet defenestrates himself before the eyes of his best friend and former lover, the achingly frustrated Clarissa Vaughan. 4. He allegedly ordered the two male students to pick her up and throw her out the window. I've heard of students being suspended and expelled, but this is the first time I've heard of a student being defenestrated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic