Usually means: Throwing someone or something out.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word defenestration:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. defenestration: Merriam-Webster
  2. defenestration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defenestration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defenestration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defenestration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defenestration, defenestration: Wordnik
  7. defenestration: Wiktionary
  8. defenestration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. defenestration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. defenestration: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. defenestration: Dictionary.com
  12. defenestration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Defenestration (band), Defenestration (film), Defenestration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. defenestration: Rhymezone
  15. defenestration: FreeDictionary.org
  16. defenestration: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. defenestration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. defenestration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defenestration: Netlingo
  2. defenestration: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defenestration, defenestration: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defenestration: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defenestration)

noun:  The act of throwing something or someone out of a window.
noun:  (British) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
noun:  (computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.

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