abort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɔːt/
ipa: /əˈbɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: aborts
form: aborting
form: aborted
form: aborted
Etymology: From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
Senses: examples: text: Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
ref: 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458:
text: In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.
ref: 1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
examples: text: "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 236:
glosses: To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
glosses: To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
glosses: To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
examples: text: First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
ref: 2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings (comic):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To terminate a process prior to completion.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortable
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortal
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortation
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortee
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: aborter
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortient
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortifacient
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortifactive
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortificant
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortion
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortive
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortment
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortogenic
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortorium
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortuary
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: abortus
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: misabort
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: nonaborting
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: pro-abort
sense: Terms derived from abort (verb)
word: unabort
Related terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: abend
word: exception