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Abort

  1. noun

    the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

    “I wasted a year of my life working on an abort”

  2. verb

    terminate before completion

    “abort the mission”

  3. verb

    cease development, die, and be aborted

    “an aborting fetus”

Word family

abortive · aborted · aborting

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