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abort

verb as in stop or cancel something

verb as in terminate or fail to complete pregnancy

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It came two months after their aborted mutiny in Russia.

From BBC

Instead of allowing doctors to abort pregnancies that are failing, they want to force them to induce labor instead.

From Salon

And when a malfunctioning synthesizer forced him to abort a performance of his new song Small Changes, the former perfectionist just laughed it off.

From BBC

An Alaska Airlines plane headed to Everett, Wash., aborted its takeoff from the Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday morning after it struck a bird, the airline said.

Along with Hamilton, Leclerc made an error on his first lap and had to abort and then had a weak first sector of his final lap.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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