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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
defenestrate .
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Examples
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America as a world ideal, as a “shining city on a hill,” is being defenestrated as we watch helplessly.
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When the revolution comes, and the chambermaids and busboys and janitors rise up in righteous fury to judge the lawyers and the lobbyists and the CEOs, you will find yourself defenestrated, or at least disbarred, but your husband will see statues raised in his honor.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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Iain Sinclair, one of Miéville's heroes, found in it a "genuine contribution to London's subterranean mythology"; his mother, reading this coming-of-age tale in which father figures are defenestrated or turn out to be giant rats, remarked "Search for the lost father much?"
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When the revolution comes, and the chambermaids and busboys and janitors rise up in righteous fury to judge the lawyers and the lobbyists and the CEOs, you will find yourself defenestrated, or at least disbarred, but your husband will see statues raised in his honor.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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To them, this Wood would seem defenestrated and sparse indeed.
Deresiewicz and copycat Hari get it wrong on Literary Critics 2009
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"I've lost track of how many times I've been killed," said Mr. Fessenden, who has been shot, ice-picked, defenestrated, mauled by rat zombies and chainsawed, among other fates.
New York's Monster of Independent Film Steve Dollar 2010
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When the revolution comes, and the chambermaids and busboys and janitors rise up in righteous fury to judge the lawyers and the lobbyists and the CEOs, you will find yourself defenestrated, or at least disbarred, but your husband will see statues raised in his honor.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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Around here, henceforth, it means I think they should be defenestrated and their banks nationalized.
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He only has to give the word and Ben Bernanke will be defenestrated.9.10pm: Stuart Millar is in Manchester at the election party of Jon Huntsman, where supporters are in subdued mood following the former ambassador's projected third place.
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To them, this Wood would seem defenestrated and sparse indeed.
xntrek commented on the word defenestrated
to not be fenestrated?
May 8, 2009
jfk commented on the word defenestrated
to be thrown out of a window
May 8, 2009
sionnach commented on the word defenestrated
hashslinging through the Waffle house drive-in window
September 22, 2009