0 past simple and past participle of abort
1 to cause something to stop or fail before it begins or before it is complete:
2 to stop the development of a baby that has not been born, usually by having a medical operation:
This change in the law would make abortion illegal except for strictly defined medical reasons.
We're conducting a poll to find out what people think about abortion.
Some women choose to have an abortion rather than care for a severely disabled child.
Her husband longed for children, and she had an abortion without telling him.
Many women die or become infertile as a result of unsafe abortions.
Within the fruits, viable and aborted seed scars were easily distinguishable, so seed output was estimated by dividing all viable seed scars in half.
In spontaneously aborted fetuses or stillborn babies, over 70% of cardiac defects are associated with noncardiac malformations.
However, production of aborted grains after anthesis, whilst being functionally valuable to the crop, has a commercial disadvantage.
