abort
IPA: ʌbˈɔrt
noun
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
- (now rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
- (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
verb
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
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Examples of "abort" in Sentences
- The attempt was abortive.
- The fetus aborts during the surgery.
- The movement quickly proved abortive.
- The mission ultimately proved abortive.
- The abortive effort ended in bankruptcy.
- Is it permissible for the mother to agree to the abortion
- The purpose of an induced abortion is to end the pregnancy.
- Abortion and sterilization are not the same as extermination.
- The death of the fetus is the primary goal of induced abortion.
- Any time prior to the exit from the womb, the baby can be aborted.