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abort
Found in thesaurus: ending, terminate, cash in one's chips, expire, pass away, pass, conk, croak, die, snuff it, perish, expel, release
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abort
v.
end a pregnancy; cancel, call off; fail; (Computers) stop a procedure in progress or a program in operation (especially suddenly or abnormally)
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Abort
Abort can mean:
- Abortion, the termination of pregnancy (human, of mammals, etc.)
- Late termination of pregnancy (although common, it is considered improper usage to call this abortion).
- Early termination of some process, e.g.:
- The early termination of a spaceflight, particularly a mode resulting in the return of the spacecraft to Earth. For more information, see Space Shuttle abort modes and Apollo abort modes.
- The termination of an aircraft take-off attempt.
- Abort (computing), to terminate a computer processing or data transfer activity.
- "Abort" is antiquated German for a toilet, from German ab- = "away" and noun Ort = "place".
- Abort, a 1970 Norwegian film.
- Abort (album), a 1991 album from the band Tribe
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abort
Verb
1. terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"
(hypernym) end, terminate
(derivation) miscarriage, abortion
2. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
(hypernym) discharge, expel, eject, release
(hyponym) miscarry
(entail) conceive
(derivation) abortion
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Abort (der)
nm.
privy, lavatory; (caused by natural or artificial means) abortion, premature termination of a pregnancy, miscarriage
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abort
v.
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