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abort English

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What does abort mean?
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abort Verb

— If you abort something, you stop something from happening any longer. The space mission was aborted because there was a fuel leak. I aborted the computer program since it wasn't working properly. — If a doctor aborts an unborn baby, they stop it from being born alive. The baby was aborted in pregnancy because it was a girl. The parents aborted the baby because they wouldn't be able to raise it.

abort

— verb terminate before completion abort the mission abort the process running on my computer — verb terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion — verb cease development, die, and be aborted an aborting fetus — noun the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed I wasted a year of my life working on an abort he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area

Synonyms abort synonyms

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abort English » English

miscarry fail stop have an abortion cancel abortion interrupt terminate suspend discontinue discard cease abandon unsuccessful quit quash of no avail intermit close break off adjourn wreck wash out torpedo suspension stop over spurt out snub shed sever send down scrub repudiate reject put in punctuation punctuate pull the plug pause moratorium miss miscarriage liquidation liquidate leave off lay over jump interruption interpellation interject

Topics abort topics

What do people use abort to talk about?
Person Life Birth

Miscarriage

Conjugation abort conjugation

How do you conjugate abort?

abort · verb

Examples abort examples

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Movie subtitles

Abort mission and return to base.
Any chance of an abort?
We'll have to abort.
Abort.
Meanwhile you tried to abort the foetus several times.
The abort control circuit is gone altogether.
Abort destruct order.
Lilly 7, Lilly 7, Hawthorne Tower. Abort your takeoff. Abort your takeoff.
You've been forced to abort the re-entry attempt.
Don't you think you'd better abort?
Abort, man.
Abort mission.
I hate to be a poor host, but the Allies are obviously out to get His Highness to abort your mission.
Are we to abort the baby?
Abort destruct order. Repeat.
Well, I am. So whatever we set up to abort this mission, it's got to be done from here.
Stand by to abort!
Abort it!
Abort firings!
You are not going to abort that baby.
Frank just walked in. We had to abort.
In the event of an abort, the tower will carry the command module away from the launch vehicle and will activate a system of control shift at 10.000 feet.
Unit 103, abort that 602, 103.
We can't abort this mission now.
To abort the baby.
Without my signal to abort, you'll be dead before the army returns.
Abort the mission!
Abort!
Can you hear me? Abort!
We can't abort.
If you have to suffer like an adult and abort the child we can marry as well.
We had to abort the show.
Touch that abort button and I say I'll kill you!

News and current affairs

The first change is the escalation of efforts by the United States and its Western allies to abort the Iranian regime's nuclear quest.
Many have argued that Indian women should stand up to their families and refuse to abort their daughters.
Unlike Hemingway's character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy.
Signs appeared that Pinochet was planning to abort the plebiscite.

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