https://flaming-tyger.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] flaming-tyger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 1word1day2007-10-31 08:02 pm
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defenestrate-verb (dē-fěn'ĭ-strāt')
To throw out of a window.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/defenestrate

She was so annoyed with her little brother for playing the same song over and over again that she took the CD and defenestrated it.

[identity profile] mi-chan13.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
One of my most favorite words for 5 years! <3

[identity profile] vexingthoughts.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sentence did not end the way I was expecting it to

[identity profile] neeroc.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
You thought the brother was headed out the window?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/retrospection_/ 2007-11-01 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
that is an amazing word

[identity profile] neeroc.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
I have loved this word since I first heard it in history class.

[identity profile] 5304988.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hey! That's one of my vocab. words for Ap English this week, ha.

[identity profile] syniqal.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Defenestration: favoured method of assasination during European revoolutions. ;;)

[identity profile] raultorian.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
that makes sense because the German word for window is das Fenster and all . . . i'm totally going to remember this :-)