0 to throw or push someone out of a window:
They threatened to defenestrate him.
It would not be a good time to defenestrate the Prime Minister.
And, as this summer and fall have shown, she can expertly defenestrate an adversary when the situation calls for it.
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.
