defenestrar
Portuguese, verb/de.fe.nesˈtɾa(ʁ)/
defenestrar is spelled D-E-F-E-N-E-S-T-R-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese, the 233,859th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Defenestrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to defenestrate (eject from a window)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de atirar algo ou alguém pela janela”.
What does defenestrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to defenestrate (eject from a window)
- 2
to discard, to marginalize
- 3
to waste, to whack
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ato de atirar algo ou alguém pela janela 2. eliminar (p. ex., politicamente) alguém; demitir expressamente; marginalizar; excluir
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of defenestrar
- defenestro first-person present singular
- defenestrei first-person preterite singular
- defenestrado participle past
- defenestrares infinitive second-person singular
- defenestrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- defenestrardes infinitive plural second-person
- defenestrarem infinitive plural third-person
- defenestrando gerund
- defenestrados masculine participle past
- defenestrada feminine participle past
- defenestradas feminine participle past
- defenestras indicative present second-person
- defenestra indicative present singular
- defenestramos first-person indicative plural
- defenestrais indicative plural present
- defenestram indicative plural present
- defenestrava first-person imperfect indicative
- defenestravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce defenestrar?
- Brazil /de.fe.nesˈtɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.fe.nesˈtɾa(h)]
- /de.fe.nesˈtɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to defenestrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is defenestrar in Portuguese?
defenestrar appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).