abort
Example Sentences
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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.
He aborted the flight, offloaded the passengers and stayed on board to help the mechanics.
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.
Instead, the veteran kicker said, he noticed a problem with the hold and made the split-second decision to abort.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
