Lewis & Short

ex-pectŏro, āre, 1, v. a. [pectus], 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).