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Listen to native speakers pronounce “defenestrate” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
“I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!”
To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
“The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).”