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abort
Verb
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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.
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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.
quorum
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noun
a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business