defenestration
名词 n.
英 /dɪˌfɛnɪˈstɹeɪʃ(ə)n/|/ˌdiː-/
美 /diˌfɛnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally.
— The "Defenestration" at Prague (A.D. 1618). [...] The imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of Hradschin by the enraged Bohemian Deputies [...]
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The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
— Be that as it may, his defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star in Joe Mercer for seven games.
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The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.; to eliminate from a contest or sport championship
— Parrott had described Thursday’s defenestration of Cristiano Ronaldo’s team as the best night of his life, only for Sunday to be yet more gloriously dramatic. The former Tottenham trainee, who plays in the Dutch Eredivisie for AZ Alkmaar, would almost certainly not have started Ireland’s double-header had Roma’s Evan Ferguson not injured an ankle.
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The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
— Defenestration might be an option too. May I recommend Linux?
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New Latin dē
Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra)bor.?
New Latin fenestra
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
New Latin -ātiō
New Latin dēfenestrātiōder.
English defenestration
From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.
New Latin dē
Etruscan *𐌚𐌍𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌓𐌀 (*fnestra)bor.?
New Latin fenestra
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
New Latin -ātiō
New Latin dēfenestrātiōder.
English defenestration
From New Latin defenestratio, from dē (“from; out”) + fenestra (“window”) + -atio (suffix indicating an action or process); compare Middle French défenestrer (modern French défenestrer), défenestration, Italian defenestrazione and
German Fenstersturz. The verb defenestrate was formed later.
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