Throwing or forcing out of a window; removing from power or position in a sudden or violent way.
Present participle of defenestrate, using the '-ing' suffix to show ongoing action. From Latin 'defenestra' (de- 'out of' + fenestra 'window').
The '-ing' form 'defenestrating' appears in history books as a darkly humorous way to describe what actually happened in Prague castles—the formal Latin word gave historians a way to discuss violence with scholarly distance.
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