defenestrate

Verb

defenestrate (third-person singular simple present defenestrates, present participle defenestrating, simple past and past participle defenestrated)

1. (transitive) To eject or throw (someone or something) from or through a window.
   • I defenestrated a clock to see if time flies!1998 September 25, Lane Smith, quoted in "TFK Q&A: Lane Smith and Jon Scieszka", in Time for Kids
2. (transitive) To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
   • The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).1998, Barry J. Fraser, Kenneth George Tobin, International Handbook of Science Education, volume 2
   • Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...2001, The Economist, volume 381, numbers 8498-8501, page 42
3. (humorous, slang, transitive) To remove a Windows operating system from (a computer).
   • This posting was written on a Windows 95 PC,
     Defenestrate it immediately. Install Linux. :-)1998 December 17, Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, "Re: Coding speccy games in the good 'ole days", message-ID <48B60EA729%news@youmustbejoking.demon.com.uk>, comp.sys.sinclair...
   • ◦ Enable one-click uninstalls of unwanted OS and application features with a Defenestrate icon.2001 July 21, "Packet Rat" (pseudonym), "Judge Rat calls for a Microsoft defenestration", on GCN: Government Computer News