🛑 To stop early 🤰 To end pregnancy ⛔ A sudden stop 🌱 To stop developing

to abort

6 6.2

To stop a pregnancy or unborn young before birth, often naturally

verb
/əˈbɔrt/

: abortar

For the first time, Jonathan thought about the aborted fetus and wondered if it had been a boy or a girl.
abort natural development
abort natural development

Examples

Mid flight abort are three of the scariest words I've ever heard.
Nevertheless, most of the chromosomal disorders presently identifiable (by name or significant frequency) spontaneously abort.

Academic text (2005)
"Let me," I cry, even as I feel my feet returning to the ground, my flight aborted, my energy spent.

Fiction book (1997)
When human beings rationalize their natural inclinations, they do not abort their natural development.

Academic text (2016)
"The tree doesn't have to abort as much fruit, and there's more carbon for its own growth and maintenance," explains Glenn.

Academic text (2000)
They had to abort the mission due to bad weather conditions.
The software crashed, causing the program to abort unexpectedly.
After encountering several errors, she decided to abort the installation process.

Synonyms

to halt

vsto abort

206 2.4

To stop moving or make something stop moving

stops something early or before completion, often due to natural causes

Antonyms

to complete

∞ 1.0

To finish something or make it whole

to mature

91 3.5

To become fully grown or developed

Compounds

pro-abort rally

NSFW

7.2

A public gathering supporting the right to have an abortion

Surface Forms

abort infinitive

aborted past

aborted past participle

aborting present participle

aborts third person singular

Etymology

Abort comes from Latin parts ab- 'away' and oriri 'to be born', which gives the image of not reaching full birth or growth. So when something will abort it stops or fails before it can fully grow, as with a young life or a plan that ends early.