Question of the Day #565

"The uniting theme that pieces this little episodic shards together into a bigger picture is that every one of these teams defenestrated their franchise scorer and were notably worse off for it."

From the 7th paragraph from the end of this article at The Hockey Writers.

上記の文で、defenestrateの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "defenestrate" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

～を窓から放り出す

なお、下記英語の定義にあるように、「～を窓から放り出す」から「人（特に指導者）を無理やり退陣させる」意味もあります。

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary :

1. to throw or push someone out of a window
2. to force someone, especially a leader, out of his or her job

Examples

• They threatened to defenestrate him.
• It would not be a good time to defenestrate the Prime Minister.
• And, as this summer and fall have shown, she can expertly defenestrate an adversary when the situation calls for it. From The New Yorker
• Name the poet who threatened to defenestrate himself when he was a judge if his choice did not win. Times, Sunday Times (2008)
• "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"

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