词汇 | defenestrate |
释义 | defenestrate verb[ T ] uk /ˌdiːˈfen.ɪ.streɪt/ us /ˌdiːˈfen.ɪ.streɪt/ formal to throw or push someone out of a window: 把…抛出窗外 They threatened to defenestrate him.他们威胁说要把他扔出窗外。 UKhumorous to force someone, especially a leader, out of his or her job: 迫使(领导人)辞职 It would not be a good time to defenestrate the Prime Minister.现在迫使首相辞职的时机不佳。 Pushing and shoving bat bat something/someone away boop bring bring someone down bundle dig elbow goad mash poke poke/dig someone in the ribsidiom prod propel push rib shoulder upend upset wrangle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Firing staff Retiring & resigning Related worddefenestration Examples of defenestratedefenestrate And, as this summer and fall have shown, she can expertly defenestrate an adversary when the situation calls for it. From The New Yorker With quite remarkable rapidity psychoanalysis was cast aside, defenestrated from its privileged position in departments of psychiatry where neuroscientists and psycho-pharmacologists replaced its acolytes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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