EGAVE

abort

About 0.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun The function used to abort a process.
  3. noun An event in which a process is aborted.
    We've had three aborts over the last two days.
  4. noun The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  5. noun A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
  6. verb To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
  7. verb To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
  8. 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

Often followed by

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Word family

aborted aborter aborters aborting aborts

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