defenestrate

verb

Definition of defenestratenext
as in to sack

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  1. sack
  2. ax
  3. remove
  4. retire
  5. ostracize
  6. terminate
  7. shut out
  8. dispossess
Verb
  • The Rams sacked him seven times in their overtime win last Sunday.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of sack
Verb
  • Here's everything to know about the show getting axed.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Electric vehicle stocks are falling Thursday after a report detailed the incoming Trump administration’s plans to axe a tax credit for consumers buying cleaner cars.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of ax
Verb
  • Next week: Mesa Ridge at Montrose, TBA No. 3 Pueblo West beat No. 19 Golden, 49-7: Two weeks removed from their first loss of the season, the Cyclones ended a streak of three straight Round of 16 exits with a rout of Golden.
    Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Teams had to shore up the structure in the efforts to reach him and he wasn't removed until a little after midnight, O’Neill said.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of remove
Verb
  • Jan Wade, who as president and general manager of WISN-TV (Channel 12) was the last of Milwaukee's TV station management to do regular on-air editorials, is retiring at the end of 2024.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • His older brother Jason retired last season after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of retire
Verb
  • This inflammatory rhetoric has alienated many in the District who use their Muslim faith to inform their voting, ostracized by one of their own.
    Suha Musa, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Blas can see through the veil because those dismissive, racist remnants still exist: the shaming, the way he’s ostracized, the way he’s dismissed and ignored.
    Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of ostracize
Verb
  • The Louisville Metro Police officer who fired pepper balls at a WAVE-TV news crew that was live on air during a Breonna Taylor protest in 2020 will not be suspended or terminated for his actions, according to an internal affairs findings letter released by LMPD on Thursday.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, Cuomo is ready to consider his past — marked by both award-winning acclaim and career-altering scandal — and explore what it’s taken to land on his feet after being terminated by CNN in 2021.
    Danielle Bacher, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of terminate
Verb
  • While programs such as the Works Progress Administration provided a crucial source of employment, most Black workers remained largely shut out of the Social Security system and unprotected by wage and hour regulations.
    Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Forgotten about this Series, and just as damaging to the Dodgers as Owen’s blunder: Freddie Fitzsimmons was sailing along in Game 3, shutting out the Yankees, when the final out of the seventh — a line drive by Marius Russo — bounced off Fitzsimmons’ leg, breaking his kneecap.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of shut out
Verb
  • If the far right wins out, as currently seems likely, Israel will continue to dispossess Palestinians from large swaths of the West Bank and build more settlements, pushing forward with the piecemeal annexation that Smotrich has spearheaded.
    Mairav Zonszein, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Gaels slaughtered them and drove them from their homes, dispossessing them of their lands just as the British would eventually dispossess the Gaels.
    Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of dispossess
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