aborts

Verb

abort (third-person singular simple present aborts, present participle aborting, simple past and past participle aborted)

1. (intransitive, regional) 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
2. (intransitive, transitive) 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
3. (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
4. (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
5. (intransitive) 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.
6. (transitive) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

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