Expugno, as, pen. prod. âre. Tere. To winne by assault, or force: to conquere: to ouercome: to vanquishe.Expugnare aurum alicui, metaphoricè.Plaut.To get money from one by craft and guile.Expugnare carcerem.Plaut.To breake prison.Castella. Cicero. Cœpta.Ouid.With great paine and difficultie to finish that he hath begonne.Domos. Hor. To breake open houses.Fortunas patrias alicuius. Cicero. By violent meanes to cast one out of his heritage and procure it to himselfe.Cupiditate & allegationibus legationem aliquam expugnare.Cic.With his couetousnesse and importune allegations to obtaine a legacie.Nihil tam munitum, quod non expugnari pecunia possit. C. Nothing is so wel fensed that may not be conquered with money.Expuguare pertinaciam legatorum.Liu.To ouercome.Expugnare propositum alicuius postulatione frequenti. Columella. By great sute and intreatie to make one leaue his purpose.Expugnare pudicitiam puellæ. Cicero. By giftes or other meanes to winne a maide to lewdnesse.Ratione expugnare aliquid. Cice. With reason to conuince.Reges expugnare. Lucret. Vitium expugnare, Vide VITIVM.Vinci & expugnari.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-pugno, āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. fut. expugnassere, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 55), v. a., to take by assault, to storm, capture, reduce, subdue (freq. and class.; syn.: obsideo, oppugno, capio). I.Lit., of places: id (oppidum Noviodunum) ex itinere oppugnare conatus, expugnare non potuit, Caes. B. G. 2, 12, 2: oppidum, id. ib. 2, 10, 4; 3, 14, 1 al.: nonnullas urbes per vim, id. B. C. 3, 55, 3: urbem, Liv. 2, 12, 1: Cirtam armis, Sall. J. 23, 1: castellum, Caes. B. G. 2, 9, 4; 3, 1, 4: loca multa, Nep. Ages. 3: moenia mundi, Lucr. 2, 1144 et saep.—B.Transf., of other objects (things or persons), to subdue, overcome, break down or through, sweep away: naves, Caes. B. G. 3, 15, 2 and 5: aedes, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 3; cf. villas, Sall. J. 44, 5: carcerem, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 76: Philippum et Nabin expugnatos,