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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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It also apparently has some weird all-knowing knowledge, because it warns its clueless mom about all the evil characters conspiring to abort the baby.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Ahmed and Gilkar had asked West to abort the pregnancy after a scan at 20 weeks showed the foetus had a severe heart defect.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

In February its space agency conducted a successful in-flight abort test from Hainan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

A little later, when Lopsang had climbed to the base of the Hillary Step, Hall decided to abort the summit attempt and signaled Cotter and Lopsang to turn around.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

A “go-around” refers to when an aircraft aborts a landing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

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

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2022

A woman who aborts a child is operating within an emotional and spiritual context of fear, disappointment, confusion and sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2016

If for any unusual cause the doe aborts one season, there is no reason why she will not carry her kid until full term another time, and experience has proven that she will.

From Practical Angora Goat Raising by

“Your Mother” came together after Tariq and Ali failed to get a “Blade” reboot green-lighted, with Ali utilizing his martial-arts training from that aborted Marvel project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

A United Airlines crew twice aborted their takeoff, and then declared an emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

FFE was aborted after Infantino's plan to sell 21% of the company to private investment companies received widespread criticism.

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

Padre de Jesus had told me about an aborted visit Dedd had made to his rectory.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

The blunt family lawyer had been representing Greg Gillespie, an Arizona man Owens had accused in a different lawsuit of trying to coerce her into aborting a twin pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Tuesday also saw chief of global football development Arsene Wenger insist he was "not involved" in Infantino's Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal, adding that aborting it was "absolutely necessary and beyond question".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

There has been no confirmation of those conversations from the Kremlin or Mr. Prigozhin, who has largely been silent since aborting his revolt.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

“Aborting takeoff, aborting takeoff,” the United pilot responded.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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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