défenestrer

To throw someone or something out of a window — a dramatic, specific verb, most often encountered in its noun form défenestration in historical and news contexts rather than the conjugated verb in daily speech.

• Les émeutiers ont défenestré du mobilier. — The rioters threw furniture out of the windows.
• Il a été défenestré dans des circonstances mystérieuses. — He was thrown out of a window under mysterious circumstances.
• Le roman s'ouvre sur un personnage défenestré. — The novel opens with a character thrown from a window.

Don't confuse with the softer 'move out of' sense — défenestrer specifically implies violent ejection through a window, not simply vacating a room.

• politics La défenestration de Prague — The 23 May 1618 incident in which Protestant nobles threw two royal governors and a secretary from a window of Prague Castle, a spark for the Thirty Years' War — the historical event that gave this verb its enduring association.