defenestrate

verb

Definition of defenestratenext
as in to sack

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defenestrate
  1. sack
  2. ax
  3. remove
  4. retire
  5. ostracize
  6. terminate
  7. shut out
  8. dispossess
Verb
  • New England’s quarterbacks were sacked 52 times over the course of it.
    — Oliver Thomas, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The 38-year-old sacked Trevor Lawrence on his first defensive snap and tackled Travis Etienne Jr. in the backfield on the following play.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of sack
Verb
  • Seasonal employees got axed at times, but mass layoffs were relatively rare, as workers routinely stayed at a single company for much of their career.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 7 Mar. 2025
  • At The Ohio State University, 16 staff positions will be axed as its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and its Center for Belonging and Social Change are disbanded, university spokesperson Benjamin Johnson told CNN.
    — Andy Rose and Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of ax
Verb
  • Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, recently reshuffled several committee assignments, removing or reassigning Republican members.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025
  • To avoid further misconceptions, the ownership group decided to remove any references to Elvis the man—including the plaster bust.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of remove
Verb
  • Rockwool Denmark retired on Day 1 after a collision during the opening race.
    — Christina House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Nadal has since retired, and Alcaraz has become one of the dominant players of the sport’s new era.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of retire
Verb
  • No, Trump Did Not ‘Bring Back Free Speech’ An August 2024 report by Columbia’s task force on antisemitism found that Jews and Israelis at Columbia were often ostracized and humiliated on campus.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Solitary, eccentric, shrouded in a mystical melancholy, Joakim fights for his farm and leads a withdrawn life, with only his pets and a neighbor for company; a Slovak immigrant who also lives ostracized, as an outsider.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Definition of ostracize
Verb
  • Tens of thousands of VA employees would be terminated with the cuts.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP A lawsuit alleges the Trump cuts are unlawful, and that DOGE exceeded its authority But last month, about two-thirds of those nonprofits — 66 — received letters from HUD terminating about half of the agency's fair-housing grants, some $30 million in all.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of terminate
Verb
  • Intersex advocates say that they have been shut out of the conversations about gender and health, even as a recent executive order has far-reaching consequences for intersex kids. March 10, 2025 This post originally appeared on The 19th.
    — Barbara Rodriguez and Kate Sosin, Them, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Finally, the team was 0-5-1 in its previous six games and had been shut out 4-0 in back-to-back games prior to the trade, so things were headed in the wrong direction.
    — Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of shut out
Verb
  • Schar nipped in and dispossessed him, allowing Anthony Gordon to double their lead.
    — Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.
    — Phi Do, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Definition of dispossess
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