abort
About 0.87 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun 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.
- noun The function used to abort a process.
- noun An event in which a process is aborted.
We've had three aborts over the last two days.
- noun The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- noun A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
- verb To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- verb To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- verb To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
Similar words
drop voiding blackout stifle halt bust break destroy outage belay
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Word family
aborted aborter aborters aborting aborts
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