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ex-ănĭmo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
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.).
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. —
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