Thesaurus / abort
FEEDBACKHow to use abort in a sentence
The executive then sends out an abort signal to the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus.
THE BRAIN HAS A BUILT-IN SYSTEM TO KEEP UNWANTED MEMORIES OUT, STUDY FINDSSHELLY FANMAY 3, 2022SINGULARITY HUB If the NFT thinks the TAGSAM arm is coming down on something dangerous flagged by the hazard map, it will automatically execute an abort burn that moves the spacecraft up and away from the surface.
A NASA SPACECRAFT IS ABOUT TO SCOOP UP SOME ASTEROID RUBBLENEEL PATELOCTOBER 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWBecause the abort was triggered just before the rocket's main RS-68 engines had begun to ignite, the delay before the next launch attempt may be less than a week.
DELTA IV HEAVY SCRUBS AGAIN, ULA CHIEF VOWS TO CHANGE READINESS OPERATIONSERIC BERGEROCTOBER 1, 2020ARS TECHNICAI've tried my best to abort this big bug, but I can't find anything amiss.
TIGHT SQUEEZEDEAN CHARLES INGAfter we took off and headed for Europe across the Channel there would usually be someone who would abort the mission.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RABBITROY BENSONSome appearances make me think that they abort by becoming confluent with the main petiole.
MORE LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN VOLUME IICHARLES DARWINContinuous application of equal parts of alcohol and water night and day may abort it.
THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE, VOLUME IV. (OF IV.)GRANT HAGUEThe bruised leaves are used locally in painful affections of the joints and to abort syphilitic buboes and abscesses of all kinds.
THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINEST. H. PARDO DE TAVERACows during the first two or three months of gestation are almost sure to abort.
BARIUM, A CAUSE OF THE LOCO-WEED DISEASEALBERT CORNELIUS CRAWFORDPsychic conditions have been known to induce attacks, and sometimes to abort them or even to cause their disappearance.
MANUAL OF SURGERYALEXIS THOMSON AND ALEXANDER MILESWORDS RELATED TO ABORT
- be cleans out
- be ruins
- be takes to the cleaners
- becomes insolvent
- breaks
- close one's doors
- closes
- closes down
- crashes
- defalcates
- defaults
- dishonors
- drops
- drops a bundle
- ends
- finishes
- folds
- goes bankrupt
- goes belly up
- goes breaks
- goes bust
- goes into Chapter 11
- goes out of business
- goes to the wall
- goes under
- goes up
- is in arrears
- loses big
- loses one's shirt
- overdraws
- repudiates
- terminates
- abort
- back wrong horse
- backslide
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- blunder
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- decline
- deteriorate
- fall
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- fizzle
- flop
- flounder
- fold
- founder
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- misfire
- miss
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- slip
- turn out badly
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