abort
v.
end a pregnancy; cancel, call off; fail; (Computers) stop a procedure in progress or a program in operation (especially suddenly or abnormally)
Abort
abort
Verb
1. terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"
(hypernym) end, terminate
(derivation) miscarriage, abortion
2. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
(hypernym) discharge, expel, eject, release
(hyponym) miscarry
(entail) conceive
(derivation) abortion
Abort (der)
n.
privy, lavatory; (caused by natural or artificial means) abortion, premature termination of a pregnancy, miscarriage
Abort
(v. i.)
To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
(v. i.)
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
(n.)
An untimely birth.
(n.)
An aborted offspring.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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