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defenestrate
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To remove Windows from a computer. It comes from "defenestration," which means to toss out of a window.
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Others feel that the Constitution's defenestration is as close as an open window.
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Worse, much of the profession has embarked on a postmodernist "futulism," a venture that is nothing less than the defenestration of the Enlightenment.
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These events are checkpoints in the period of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation that will be remembered as long as those surrounding the Diet of Worms and the Defenestration at Prague.
Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the ... by HAGER, ALAN / Renaissance Quarterly
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