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abort

[uh-bawrt] / əˈbɔrt /


VERB
terminate or fail to complete pregnancy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
Antonyms
WEAK
carry to term continue keep


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Executives learned in October 2020 that batches of AstraZeneca’s vaccine had to be aborted and were contaminated due to production issues.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once, on a solo trip to the North Pole, he snapped a piece of his ski binding and was forced to abort the entire expedition, writing off a trip that cost more than $200,000.

From The Wall Street Journal

He aborted the flight, offloaded the passengers and stayed on board to help the mechanics.

From The Wall Street Journal

A video from an aborted attempt to climb Mt.

From Los Angeles Times

It aborted the effort, called Operation Causeway, because the scale and complexity demanded many hundreds of thousands of troops.

From The Wall Street Journal