defenestrate
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It goes to understanding — or not understanding — the flipped-around logic with which Diller and Malone are each now trying to defenestrate the other.
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- transitive verb To throw out of a window.
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It goes to understanding — or not understanding — the flipped-around logic with which Diller and Malone are each now trying to defenestrate the other.
— The Best of Enemies -
Did you know that "defenestrate" means to throw something or someone out of a window?
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And moderate Republicans will be on notice to resist the temptation to tinker with ObamaCare rather than defenestrate it once it's passed. avoth
— Propeller Most Popular Stories -
Two respondents each chose some exceptionally unusual words: defenestrate, schadenfreude, and discombobulate.
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The furniture that she especially wanted to defenestrate was the detailed surface realism that loves to "catalogu [e]" facts about characters '"material surroundings," as if that were the important thing.
— Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)
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- Back-formation from defenestration.