abort
UK/əˈbɔːt//əˈbɔɹt/
abort noun: an early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
Noun
abort (plural aborts)
- An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
- The function used to abort a process.
- An event in which a process is aborted.
- We've had three aborts over the last two days.
- The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
- A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
- In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section...
Verb
abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)
- To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458
- In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 236
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings (comic)
- To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- To terminate a process prior to completion.
abort meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
abort in Hindi
- भ्रूणहत्या करना, गर्भपात होना, निष्फल, विफलन, रद्द करना, व्यर्थ
abort in Tamil
- product of a miscarriage
- காய் kāy
- miscarriage
- கருச்சிதைவு karuccitaivu
- to cause a premature termination
- கலை kalai
abort in Urdu
- to miscarry
- حمل ضائع کرنا hamal zā'e karnā, حمل اسقاط کرنا hamal isqāt karnā, حمل گرانا hamal girānā, پیٹ گرانا peṭ girānā, اخراج جنین کرنا ixrāj-e-janīn karnā, حمل ساقط کرنا hamal sāqit karnā
abort in Bengali
- মাঝপথে বন্ধ করে দেওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- abort in Telugu
- గర్భస్రావం garbhasrāvaṁ, గర్భ విచ్ఛిత్తి garbha vicchitti, గర్భపాతం garbhapātaṁ, గర్భోత్పాటనం garbhōtpāṭanaṁ
- abort in Malayalam
- അലസുക, ഗർഭം അലസുക, ഗർഭം അലസിപ്പിക്കുക, നിഷ്ഫലമാക്കുക
- abort in Kannada
- ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟು, ಹುಟ್ಟಳಿಸು, ಮೈಯಿಳಿ, ಗರ್ಭಸ್ರಾವವಾಗು
- abort in Arabic
- يُجْهِض yujhiḍ
- abort in Malay
- henti paksa
- abort in Indonesian
- menghentikan
- abort in Persian
- سقط جنین seqt-e janin, افگانه afgâne
- abort in Thai
- แท้ง tɛ́ɛng, ทำแท้ง tam-tɛ́ɛng, ยกเลิก yók-lə̂ək, เลิก lə̂ək
- abort in Vietnamese
- sẩy thai, phá thai
- abort in Myanmar
- ကိုယ်ဝန်ပျက် kuiywanpyak, သားပျက် sa:pyak, သားလျှော sa:hlyau:, ဇီးလျှော ji:hlyau:
Examples of abort in a sentence
- He was practicing aborting his pilot training, but then he really did abort!
- This information is then used to predict the actual abort mode boundaries on which the real-time voice calls are made.
- However, in stark contrast with the lactification principle so denigrated by Fanon, she decides to abort and come home.
Forms of abort
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | aborts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | aborts |
| present participle | aborting |
| past participle | aborted |
| past | aborted |
Origin of abort
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus.
From Latin abortare, from abortus, from aboriri (“miscarry”), from ab- (“not”) + oriri (“come into being, arise, appear”).
Words formed from abort
Words that rhyme with abort
44 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mort
- assort
- escort
- fort
- quart
- resort
- retort
- thwart
- wart
- cavort
- comport
- detort
- distort
- extort
- swart
- transport
- apport
- come short
- consort
- contort
- desport
- ort
- purport
- reimport
- tort
- accourt
- aport
- asnort
- asport
- bort
- coreport
- Crown Court
- dort
- exhort
- Isle aux Morts
- kangaroo court
- misreport
- reexport
- rereport
- rort
- skort
- spoilsport
- torte
- worrywart
Questions about abort
- What does abort mean?
- Abort means an early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- What is abort in Hindi?
- Abort in Hindi is भ्रूणहत्या करना, गर्भपात होना, निष्फल. See Abort meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is abort?
- Abort can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce abort?
- Abort is pronounced /əˈbɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of abort?
- The plural of abort is aborts.
Words near abort in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: abort (page history and authors); abort (Hindi Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abort (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abort (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abort (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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