E / ex-pectŏro
verb transitive

ex-pectŏro

2nd PP ex-pectŏrāre · conj. 1st
to drive from the breast; to expel; banish from the mind
to drive from the breast; to expel, banish from the mind (ante-class.): tum pavor sapientiam omnem mi exanimato expectorat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19 (Trag. Fragm. ed. Rib. p. 17): pavorem hunc meum expectora, Att. ap. Non. 16, 6; 16, 8 (Trag. Fragm. ed. Rib. p. 175 and 213).