Search...and you'll shall find! The "vih-SÄHZH" pronunciation is demonstrated in the links below! https://app.glosbe.com/audio/101688:0000590543 https://app.glosbe.com/audio/166813:0002893316 https://app.glosbe.com/audio/101688:0000585778 https://app.glosbe.com/audio/101688:0000585785 http...

Can visage , in French, be pronounced as vih-SÄHZH ? The "i" in vih sounds like the "i" in igloo . I know the French pronounce it as vee-ZÄHZH , but I've also heard it pronounced as vih-SÄHZH , with an "i" and an "s." And the American pronunciation VIZ-ij is t...

I meant to post this here, not in the other forum. Sorry. Based on the following examples, can the word "defenestrate" mean "to defeat" in a competition, especially a sporting event? I know that it literally means "to throw out of a window," and, metaphorically, "t...

World Wide Words had this to say: Around 1900 we start seeing defenestrate as a joking term, actual throwing not being implied. In the early 1990s or a little before it took on a colloquial sense of removing a person from office by sacking them, as happened to Margaret Thatcher: Mr Bob Hawke, Austra...

Based on the following examples, can the word "defenestrate" mean "to defeat" in a competition, especially a sporting event? I know that it literally means "to throw out of a window," and, metaphorically, "to get rid of; pink-slip; fire," as in: "The comp...