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Meaning of excutio | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
[ɛkˈskʊ.ti.oː]

Definitions

  1. to shake out, shake off, elicit, knock out, drive out, cast off, strike off
    conjugation-3
  2. to throw from or off of a horse, chariot, ship, etc.
    conjugation-3
  3. to discard, banish
    conjugation-3
  4. to examine, inspect
    conjugation-3

Examples

“… excutitur prōnusque magister”

[Having been knocked out] and [lying] prone [on deck], the helmsman was thrown [from the ship], [and] was tumbled headfirst [into the water]. (During the storm at sea, Lycian helmsman Leucaspis suffers a dishonorable death without proper burial; he appears by name in Book 6, Line 334.)

“Hanc excutere opīniōnem mihimet voluī rādīcitus.”

I wished, for my own sake, to pluck up this opinion by the roots.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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