defenestrate

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Walk down 6th at Howard and you'll see all sorts of furniture trying to defenestrate itself out of an abandoned building.

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  • The very same legal codes which the Canadian government were prepared to defenestrate to accommodate the war criminal George W Bush were preyed in aid by the Canadian Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenny, to inform the peace activist Galloway that he would not be welcome in Canada based on his opinions on the illegal war in Afghanistan. —  GlobalResearch.ca
  • Or just defenestrate yourself without a golden parachute. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Walk down 6th at Howard and you'll see all sorts of furniture trying to defenestrate itself out of an abandoned building. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • In truth, Israel too has never missed an opportunity - to defenestrate the Palestinians, denude their lives, demonize their resistance, and denigrate their culture. —  Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
  • Check out the machinations around the elite of our banking sector, most of whom appear to be hanging on by their fingernails as the Government attempts to defenestrate them en masse and we can the see the absurdity of that statement. —  Irish Blogs
 

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  1. Back-formation from defenestration.
 

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