I.the taking of a place by assault, carrying by storm, storming: “urbis,” Caes. B. G. 7, 36, 1: “oppidi,” Suet. Claud. 21: “Mytilenarum,” id. Caes. 2; cf.: “ut ipsorum adventus in urbes sociorum non multum ab hostili expugnatione differant,” Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 5, 13: castrorum, Caes. B. G. 6, 41, 1.—In plur.: “nocturnae aedium,” Cic. Att. 11, 23, 3: “nunc acie, nunc expugnationibus,” Vell. 2, 98, 1.
expugnātĭo , ōnis, f. expugno,