Meanings (ES + gloss)
defenestrar
To throw out; to remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
Ever since he helped to defenestrate Richard Nixon in 1974, Mr Woodward has been a sort of super-reporter ...
The cultural historians of science 'feel the need to defenestrate science, or at least take it off its pedestal' (Pumfrey. Rossi & Slawinski 1991. p. 3).