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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, originally a nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window, especially lethally..
She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.
...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'
Use autodefenestration when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Autodefenestration means (rare, originally a nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window, especially lethally..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.
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