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abort Definition

abort (ə bôrt′)

intransitive verb

  1. to give birth before the embryo or fetus is viable; have a miscarriage
  2. to fail to be completed
  3. Biol. to fail to develop; stay rudimentary

Etymology: L abortare < abortus, pp. of aboriri, to miscarry, pass away, orig., to set (as the sun) < ab-, from + oriri, to arise: see orient

transitive verb

    1. to end (a pregnancy) prematurely
    2. to cause (an embryo or fetus) to be expelled so as to end a pregnancy
    3. to cause to have an abortion
  2. to check (a disease) before fully developed
  3. ☆ to cut short (an action or operation of an aircraft, spacecraft, etc.), as because of some failure in the equipment

noun

a premature termination of a flight, mission, etc.

abort Synonyms

abort

v.

  1. To fail

    miscarry, fall short, miss; see fail 1.

  2. To cancel

    stop, cut short, nullify; see cancel 2.

abort Usage Examples

Object

  • fetus: Should they be able to abort a fetus of the " wrong " sex?
  • fetus: The first, in the USA, was a much magnified photograph of a fetus aborted at about 12 weeks.
  • dive: However, looking back we should have aborted the dive a lot earlier than we did.
  • execution: The return builtin may be used to abort execution of scripts executed with the.
  • baby: The image of the baby aborted at 21 weeks speaks for itself.
  • pregnancy: It is not difficult to understand why women choose to abort abnormal pregnancies.

Converse of object

  • find: The mind boggles.... ******************* !# Unable to find /life!# Abort / Retry / Fail?

Adjective modifier

  • /life: The mind boggles.... ******************* !# Unable to find /life!# Abort / Retry / Fail?
  • !#: The mind boggles.... ******************* !# Unable to find /life !# Abort / Retry / Fail?

Adjective complement

  • due: The first two raids were aborted due to bad weather.

Modifying Another Word

  • spontaneously: In fact most trisomies will cause fetuses to spontaneously abort.
  • immediately: If there is no error clause and an error occurs the program will issue an error message and abort immediately.
  • due: A problem arose during the restore process which meant the test had to be aborted due to resourcing time constraints.
  • then: Guarded entries can also be useful for aborting actions in a select... then abort construct.
  • not: His ox mates without fail; his cow calves and does not abort.
  • n't: You ca n't abort a mare, Pa says, or you'll lose her.

Used with why or when

  • when: Those functions use up all available memory and abort when GAP fails to extend its workspace.

Preposition: with

  • error: Some programs go into infinite loops, some abort with a runtime error.
  • message: If ' this is the case we abort with a suitable error message.

Preposition: for

  • reason: A trip to do Rumbling Hole a few weeks back had been aborted for the same reason - talk about Déjà vu!