1. threw or pushed someone or something out of a window
Usage: past tense of defenestrate
2. removed someone from a position of power or authority
Usage: figurative; formal

Examples

• The angry mob defenestrated the corrupt official from the town hall window.
• During the Prague uprising, several government representatives were defenestrated.
• The board defenestrated the CEO after the financial scandal.
• Protesters symbolically defenestrated the dictator’s portrait.
• The revolution defenestrated the old regime’s leadership.
• Medieval rebels often defenestrated their enemies as punishment.