the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
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defenestration
How to use defenestration in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for defenestration.
Editorial note
"defenestration" isn't a latin word, it's an english word derived from the latin.
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Quick take
the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for defenestration.
noun
the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
Example sentences
"defenestration" isn't a latin word, it's an english word derived from the latin.
Lol in French defenestration is literally death by jumping out of a window.
> "...suicide by defenestration..."as an aside, my first thought at this phrase was that "he died by removing all the windows?
The defenestration hack always irked me since it meant paying for a Windows license that I didn't want to use.
I was struggling with getting FreeBSD running on a cloud server last year when I came across your original EC2 defenestration post.
If a hacker recruits many accomplices to form a bucket brigade to the window, does that then become a distributed defenestration of service attack?
I think both the meter and the soundness/grammatical-correctness would benefit from replacing the Noun defenestration with the verb defenestrate
Bill Waterson's Calvin & Hobbes poem introduced "defenestration" to me when I was young young young: "The monster, in his consternation, Demonstater defenestration".
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How do you use defenestration in a sentence?
"defenestration" isn't a latin word, it's an english word derived from the latin.
What does defenestration mean?
the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
What part of speech is defenestration?
defenestration is commonly used as noun.