I. To deprive of air or wind.
A. Lit.: folles, i. e. to press together, so as to force out the air, Auct. Aetnae, 560.—
B. Transf. (in pass.), to be out of breath, weakened, exhausted: “simul fore ut duplicato cursu Caesaris milites exanimarentur et lassitudine conficerentur,” Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2: “milites cursu ac lassitudine exanimati,” id. B. G. 2, 23, 1; 3, 19, 1; Plaut. As. 2, 1, 17; id. Cas. 3, 5, 8; 3, 3, 10.—
b. Of impers. or abstr. things, to be weakened: “(vini faex) celerrime exanimatur loco non incluso condita,” loses its strength, Plin. 23, 2, 31, § 64: nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire, with feeble breath, i. e. lifeless, tame, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41.—
II. To deprive of life, to kill (freq. and class.).
A. Lit.: “telum saepe nocentes Praeterit exanimatque indignos,” Lucr. 2, 1104: “aliquem,” id. 6, 243; Suet. Aug. 29; Curt. 7, 3; Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf.: “se taxo,” Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin.—
b. In pass., to be deprived of life, be killed, to die: “(Epaminondas) cum gravi vulnere exanimari se videret,” Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; cf. Nep. Epam. 9 fin.; so Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 77; Caes. B. G. 6, 16, 4; Suet. Caes. 39 fin. al.; cf. in the part. perf.: “exanimatus,” killed, dead, Lucr. 6, 1256 (with exanimis); Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 6; 7, 25, 2 and 3; Liv. 9, 1; 25, 7; 22, 7 fin. al. —
B. Trop., to deprive of life or spirit, to alarm or terrify greatly, to put out of one's senses with fright, horror, etc.; to agitate, trouble: “vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior,” Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5: “oratio haec me miseram exanimavit metu,” Ter. And. 1, 5, 16; cf.: “te metus exanimant judiciorum atque legum,” Cic. Par. 2, 18: “Decius torpidos somno insuper pavore exanimat,” Liv. 7, 36: “adolescentulus sic initio accusationis exanimatus sum, ut, etc.,” Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: “me exanimant et interimunt hae voces Milonis,” id. Mil. 34, 93: “Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat,” id. Att. 11, 6, 4: “cur me querelis exanimas (= conturbas, summo maerore afficis) tuis?” Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf. id. S. 1, 4, 127; id. Ep. 2, 1, 178 et saep.—In the part. perf.: “exanimata metu,” Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; cf. Cic. Mil. 23; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77; id. Cat. 4, 2: non me fefellit, sensi; “eo exanimatus fui,” Plaut. Bacch. 2, 4, 64; id. Ps. 1, 1, 7; Ter. And. 1, 1, 104; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5; Verg. A. 5, 805; Stat. Th. 4, 760 al.
