4 September 2013

defenestrate

[dee-fen-uh-streyt]

verb (used with object), de·fen·es·trat·ed, de·fen·es·trat·ing.

– to throw (a person or thing) out of a window.

Example sentence:

I nearly defenestrated my computer.

Today’s aphorism

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

– Sylvia Plath

On this day

4 September 1937 – birth of Dawn Fraser AO MBE, Australian swimming legend. Won Olympic gold medals in 1956, 1960 and 1964, as well as a number of silver medals.

4 September 2006 – death of Steve Irwin, ‘The Crocodile Hunter’, Australian wildlife expert and television personality. (Born 22 February 1962).