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abortable

abortable adjective: capable of being aborted.

Adjective

abortable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being aborted.
    • I spent weeks after my miscarriage trying to understand. . . . Had I lost a baby, or "just" a 16-week fetus, not viable outside the womb, abortable under law?1994 June 26, Susan Chira, “Hers: When Hope Died”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013

Origin of abortable

From abort + -able.

Questions about abortable

What does abortable mean?
Abortable means capable of being aborted.
What part of speech is abortable?
Abortable is an adjective.

Words near abortable in the dictionary

  1. Abors
  2. aborsement
  3. aborsements
  4. aborsive
  5. abort
  6. abortable
  7. abortal
  8. abortation
  9. abortations
  10. abortative
  11. aborted

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