Can the verb "defenestrate" be applied to someone jumping out of the window?

Solution 1:

The verb to defenestrate is usually transitive, but it can take a reflexive pronoun as a pseudo-object:

Roadwork: A Novel By Richard Bachman, Stephen King

Even in his dreams he thought he was awake, and in his dreams he committed suicide over and over; burned himself; bludgeoned himself by standing under an anvil and pulling a rope; ... shot himself ... defenestrated himself; ...

Return to Reichenbach By Geri Schear

I continued rifling through the papers. A name caught my eye. “Take a look at this, Watson,” I said, handing him the document.

“Carton? The fellow who defenestrated himself after changing his will and leaving his wife and son nothing.”