abort
/əˈbɔɹt/noun, verb2 syllables
Abort means: the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed.
What does abort mean?4
noun
1
the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed“I wasted a year of my life working on an abort”
verb
1
terminate before completion“abort the mission”
2
cease development, die, and be aborted“an aborting fetus”
3
terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with abort?22
three syllables
teleport
Abort in a sentence
- I don't want to abort the mission now.Hybrid
- My botched sentence must be the stillborn child of an aborted copy and paste.belgavox
- My mother nearly aborted me at my birth.LoverofEnglish
- The world would be a better place if Donald Trump had been aborted.shekitten
- The computer immediately aborted the procedure.Amastan
- The mission had to be aborted.CK
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of abort
as a noun
- plural
- aborts
as a verb
- past tense
- aborted
- present participle
- aborting
- third-person singular
- aborts
- past participle
- aborted