infenestrate

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verb

To enter or insert into or through a window.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbinfenestrate (third-person singular simple present infenestrates, present participle infenestrating, simple past and past participle infenestrated)

present singular third person infenestrates · participle present infenestrating · participle past infenestrated · past infenestrated

  1. ambitransitiveTo enter or insert into or through a window.

    Holmes enters through the window, and reveals that he was Peters, and Amelia was Billy. Watson also infenestrates.

    1993, Richard Lancelyn Green, “The Speckled Band”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, page 363
    2 more examples

    Fall finds The Harvard Advocate floating and spinning in good foliar form: physical injuries abound, new locks and lists are rendered irrelevant by infenestrated revelers, and those prone to suspicion let anxieties take the reigns as winter looms.

    2015, Advocate Editorial Board, The Harvard Advocate, Editor's Note: Fall 2015

    […] the new structure that Joseph Urban has designed for this ambitious group of midtown modernists rises strikingly with its severely blocked facade of alternating bands of patterned brick and infenestrated glass.

    2015, Randall R. Griffey et al., Thomas Hart Benton's America Today
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APA

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Chicago

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