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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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Regarding the mid-air incident, he said that a plane "was meant to land in Leipzig but then had to abort the landing".

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

An oxygen tank had exploded in their spacecraft, forcing them to abort their lunar landing plans.

From Barron's Apr. 4, 2026

They concerned the launch abort system, which enables Nasa engineers to eject the astronauts and blow up the rocket if there is a malfunction.

From BBC Apr. 1, 2026

Throughout the complex aerial gymnastics of an abort, the distribution of weight matters immensely: A top-heavy capsule performs differently than a bottom-heavy capsule.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

Here is a abort example of the problems of chivalry, which he thought about in his early times.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

At the same time, the plant aborts nearly all fruits that contain larvae, which helps limit the plant's resource investment.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

At the end of "Thalidomide," Plath writes, "The glass cracks across, / The image / Flees and aborts like dropped mercury."

From Salon Mar. 8, 2022

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert try to return to Earth after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2019

Following a pair of last-second launch aborts over two days, the third attempt worked for SpaceX on Wednesday as it blasted a large commercial communications satellite into orbit without a hitch.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2017

Fruit about the size of an acorn, oval, fleshy, containing a milky juice; it is 2-celled and each cell contains a solitary, hard seed; of these one aborts.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

After the proposal was aborted, Uefa and Concacaf withdrew their support for Infantino when he stands for a fourth presidential term at the Fifa Congress in March next year.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Authorities also are looking into a second unidentified object that collided with a cargo plane after the plane aborted its landing at Leipzig due to the closure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Before the biggest scandal to hit his tenure - the aborted Fifa Forward Enterprise plan - Infantino was an incredibly powerful figure who appeared bulletproof.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The second object collided with a cargo plane that had aborted its landing at Leipzig because of the closure, state officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Should I tell him about my father’s aborted dreams?

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Such is her agony at the memory of aborting their baby that she relies on her diary entries from the time to carry the weight.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Watch as a KLM passenger plane performs a 'go-around' after aborting its landing at Aberdeen Airport during Storm Babet.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2023

After aborting the takeoff, the crew returned the plane to the gate, where passengers disembarked, the airline said, adding that the flight was then delayed overnight.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2023

However, while traveling at over 11,000 mph, the system experienced an anomaly, aborting the flight prematurely.

From Washington Times Jan. 10, 2023

A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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