exănĭmātĭo, ōnis, f. [exanimo].
I A depriving of breath , suffocating : volvarum, i. e. hysterical passion , Plin. 32, 3, 13, § 28 (for which suffocatio, id. 20, 5, 15, § 30, and strangulatus, id. 26, 15, 90, § 153).—
II Trop., terror , fright : exanimatio metus subsequens et quasi comes pavoris, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19; cf. id. ib. 4, 6, 13: si cavebimus, ne in perturbationes atque exanimationes incidamus, id. Off. 1, 36, 131.