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defenestrate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌdiːˈfen.ɪ.streɪt/ us /ˌdiːˈfen.ɪ.streɪt/
formal
to throw or push someone out of a window: 把…抛出窗外
They threatened to defenestrate him.他们威胁说要把他扔出窗外。
UKhumorous
to force someone, especially a leader, out of his or her job: 迫使（领导人）辞职
It would not be a good time to defenestrate the Prime Minister.现在迫使首相辞职的时机不佳。
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Examples of defenestrate
defenestrate
And, as this summer and fall have shown, she can expertly defenestrate an adversary when the situation calls for it.
From The New Yorker
With quite remarkable rapidity psychoanalysis was cast aside, defenestrated from its privileged position in departments of psychiatry where neuroscientists and psycho-pharmacologists replaced its acolytes.
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