abort

verbstop or cancel something

verbterminate or fail to complete pregnancy

Word Origin & History

1570s, "to miscarry," from Latin abortus, past participle of aboriri "to miscarry" (see abortive); 1610s as "to deliberately terminate" anything, but especially a pregnancy, which seems to be the literal sense. Transitive meaning "to cause a woman to miscarry" is recorded from 1933. Related: Aborted; aborting.

Example Sentences for abort

Abort the middle there was au arm-hole with a shutter or flap over it.

And if I am to endure it much longer, I shall have to abort.

It was on that train I learned my first German word "abort" meaning bathroom.

"I thought we'd abort this mission before we were through," he sneered.

I've tried my best to abort this big bug, but I can't find anything amiss.

This mat is abort four feet square, and when folded has one end sewn up, so that it forms a kind of sack open at one side.

Its effects seem to be to favour abortion; and there is reason to believe that it has caused many valuable animals to abort.

Hence it is, that when this disposition to abort first appears in a herd, it is naturally in a cow that has been lately purchased.

Some appearances make me think that they abort by becoming confluent with the main petiole.

Continuous application of equal parts of alcohol and water night and day may abort it.

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