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Past tense of abort

regular verb

The past tense of abort is aborted. The past participle is also aborted.

Forms of abort

Base form (V1)abort /əˈbɔːt/
Past tense (V2)aborted /əˈbɔɹtɪd/
Past participle (V3)aborted /əˈbɔɹtɪd/
Present participleaborting
Third person singularaborts

Aborted in a sentence

  • 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
  • Almost half of the patients had experienced symptoms, including 2 SCD and 4 aborted SCD.2015 July 15, “Comprehensive Genetic Characterization of a Spanish Brugada Syndrome Cohort”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry arrhythmogenicity
  • These indeterminisms confuse a regular bus arbiter in deciding whether a transaction should be aborted or resumed.2008, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Behrooz Parhami, Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, Advances in Computer Science and Engineering. From the entry indeterminism
  • The before image journal is used for undoing the effects of aborted transactions, and for recovery from system crashes.1990, Sayyed M. Deen (editor), Practical Database Techniques, page 58. From the entry before image journal
  • It has been estimated that about two out of three fetuses with prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome are aborted in the United States.2024 December 1, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Does Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome Amount to Eugenics?”, in The New York Times. From the entry prenatally

Meaning of abort

  1. noun An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
  2. noun The function used to abort a process.
  3. noun An event in which a process is aborted.

Full definition of abort

Questions about the past tense of abort

What is the past tense of abort?
The past tense of abort is aborted.
What is the past participle of abort?
The past participle of abort is aborted.
Is abort a regular or irregular verb?
Abort is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abort (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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