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English

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle English , from Latin abortus , perfect active participle of aborior ("miscarry"), formed from ab + orior ("to come into being"). Doublet of abortus .

    Noun

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    abort (plural aborts )

    1. (military , aeronautics ) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
      We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
    2. (computing ) The function used to abort a process.
    3. (computing ) An event in which a process is aborted.
      We've had three aborts over the last two days.
    4. (now rare ) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
    5. (obsolete ) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [...], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [...] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:
        In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
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    early termination of a mission
    function used to abort a process
    event to abort a computer process
    product of a miscarriage
    miscarriage

    Etymology 2

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      From Latin abortare , from abortus , from aboriri ("miscarry"), from ab- ("not") + oriri ("come into being, arise, appear").

      Verb

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      abort (third-person singular simple present aborts , present participle aborting , simple past and past participle aborted )

      1. (intransitive , now rare outside medicine ) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
        • 1785, Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, page 458:
          Women have aborted, men have committed suicide, and both men and women have been thrown into convulsions during the fearful agony of renal colic.
        • 1983, M. D. Bennett, Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference, page 346:
          In the study group ll patients aborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patients aborted after the 21st week.
      2. (transitive , intransitive ) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
        • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 236:
          "Of course, you can't abort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
      3. (transitive ) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
      4. (intransitive ) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
      5. (intransitive , biology ) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
      6. (transitive , biology ) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
      7. (intransitive , military ) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
        • 2022, Michael & Stefan Strasser, Chicken Wings‎[1] (comic):
          First he aborts the take-off and now we have a runway incursion!
      8. (transitive , aeronautics ) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
      9. (transitive , computing ) To terminate a process prior to completion.
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      Translations
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      to miscarry
      to cause a premature termination
      to stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages
      biology: to become checked in normal development
      biology: to cause an organism to develop minimally
      military: to abandon a mission
      • Chinese:
        Mandarin: 中止 任務  / 中止 任务 (zhōngzhǐ rènwù)
      • Dutch: please add this translation if you can
      • Finnish: keskeyttää  (fi)
      • Norwegian:
        Bokmål: please add this translation if you can
      aeronautics: to terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket
      computing: to terminate a process prior to completion
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      Cebuano

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      Etymology

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      From English abort , from Latin abortare , from abortus , from aboriri ("miscarry"), from ab- ("not") + oriri ("come into being, arise, appear").

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      • Hyphenation: a‧bort

      Verb

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      abort

      1. to abort; to cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term

      Crimean Tatar

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      Etymology

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      From Latin abortus .

      Noun

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      abort

      1. abort , abortion

      Declension

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      Declension of abort
      singular plural
      nominative abort abortlar
      genitive abortnıñ abortlarnıñ
      dative abortqa abortlarğa
      accusative abortnı abortlarnı
      locative abortta abortlarda
      ablative aborttan abortlardan

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      • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2] , Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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      Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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      abort m inan

      1. (medicine ) abortion (expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed)
        Synonym: potrat

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      Declension of abort (hard masculine inanimate)
      singular plural
      nominative abort aborty
      genitive abortu abortů
      dative abortu abortům
      accusative abort aborty
      vocative aborte aborty
      locative abortu abortech
      instrumental abortem aborty

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      Danish

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      abort c (singular definite aborten , plural indefinite aborter )

      1. abortion
      2. miscarriage

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      Declension of abort
      common
      gender       		singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative abort aborten aborter aborterne
      genitive aborts abortens aborters aborternes

      Estonian

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      Etymology

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      From German Abort .

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      Noun

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      abort (genitive abordi , partitive aborti )

      1. abortion
        Mu tüdruk tahab aborti teha.
        My girl wants an abortion.
      2. miscarriage

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      Declension of abort (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
      singular plural
      nominative abort abordid
      accusative nom.
      gen. abordi
      genitive abortide
      partitive aborti aborte
      abortisid
      illative aborti
      abordisse       		abortidesse
      abordesse
      inessive abordis abortides
      abordes
      elative abordist abortidest
      abordest
      allative abordile abortidele
      abordele
      adessive abordil abortidel
      abordel
      ablative abordilt abortidelt
      abordelt
      translative abordiks abortideks
      abordeks
      terminative abordini abortideni
      essive abordina abortidena
      abessive abordita abortideta
      comitative abordiga abortidega

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      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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      From Latin abortus ("premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage"), perfect active participle of aborior ("to disappear; to miscarry, be aborted (of a baby)"), a compound from both ab- ("from, away from, off"), from Latin ab ("from, away from, on, in"), from Proto-Italic *ab , from Proto-Indo-European *h2epó ("off, away") + and from orior ("to rise, appear, be born"), from Proto-Italic *oriōr , from Proto-Indo-European *h3er- ("to move, stir, rise, spring").

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      abort m (definite singular aborten , indefinite plural aborter , definite plural abortene )

      1. (medicine ) an abortion (termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus)
        Synonyms: misfødsel , fosterdrap , svangerskapsavbrytelse , svangerskapsavbrudd
        illegal abort ― illegal abortion
        provosert abort ― provoked abortion
      2. (medicine ) a miscarriage (abortion that occurs by itself)
        Synonym: spontanabort
        ha en abort ― have an abortion
        ta abort ― induce abortion
        habituell abort ― habitual abortion (the miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies)
        • 1840 June 23, Den Norske Rigstidende, page 2:
          mange mene, at hensigten [med attentatet] kun har været at forskrække dronningen og derved foraarsage en abort
          many believe that the intention [of the assassination] was only to frighten the queen and thereby cause an abortion
        • 1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 298:
          hun havde hørt, at ægteskaber, hvori det første svangerskab endte med abort, som oftest bleve barnløse
          she had heard that marriages in which the first pregnancy ended in abortion often became childless
        • 1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 295:
          min kone, som efter aborten længe havde været svag, blev frisk igjen
          my wife, who had been weak for a long time after the abortion, recovered
        • 1996, Ketil Bjørnstad, Historien om Edvard Munch, page 337:
          maleriet [var ikke] noe maleri i det hele tatt, men en abort
          the painting [was] not a painting at all, but an abortion
      3. (medicine ) an abortion (termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication)
        Synonyms: abortus provocatus , fosterfordrivelse , utskrapning
        foreta en abort ― perform an abortion
        kjønnsbetinget abort ― gendered abortion
        selvbestemt abort ― self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law)
        • 1973, Tor Edvin Dahl, Guds tjener, page 136:
          foreldrene sendte ham to tusen kroner og det ble ordnet med illegal abort
          his parents sent him two thousand kroner and an illegal abortion was arranged
        • 1975, Liv Køltzow, Historien om Eli, page 119:
          hun var helt desperat av redsel for at hun ikke skulle få innvilget aborten
          she was desperate for fear that she would not be granted an abortion
        • 1976, Mette Hansen, Kasino, page 33:
          Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort
          Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion
        • 1990, Kåre Willoch, Statsminister, page 53:
          de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort
          the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion
      4. (medicine , now rare) a premature foetus
      5. (technology ) the act of aborting
        Synonym: abortere

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      • "abort" in The Bokmål Dictionary.
      • "abort" in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
      • "abort" in Store medisinske leksikon

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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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      From Latin abortus .

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      abort m (definite singular aborten , indefinite plural abortar , definite plural abortane )

      1. abortion (induced)
      2. miscarriage (spontaneous)
        Synonym: spontanabort

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      Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Proto-Indo-European *h2ep
      Proto-Indo-European *-o
      Proto-Indo-European *h2epó
      Proto-Italic *ap
      Latin ab der.
      Latin ab-
      Proto-Indo-European *h3er- der.
      Proto-Italic *oriōr
      Latin orior
      Latin aborior
      Proto-Indo-European *-tus
      Proto-Italic *-tus
      Latin -tus
      Latin abortus der.
      Middle English -der.
      English abort bor.
      Polish abort

        Borrowed from English abort .

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        abort m inan

        1. (medicine ) abortion (act of inducing abortion)
          Synonym: aborcja
          Coordinate term: poronienie
        2. (computing ) force quit, closing (act of stopping a program)

        Declension

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        Declension of abort
        singular plural
        nominative abort aborty
        genitive abortu abortów
        dative abortowi abortom
        accusative abort aborty
        instrumental abortem abortami
        locative aborcie abortach
        vocative aborcie aborty
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        adverb
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        • "abort", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • "abort", in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

        Portuguese

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        Etymology

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          Unadapted borrowing from English abort .

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          abort m (plural aborts )

          1. (computing ) abort (function used to abort a process)
            Synonym: abortamento

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          abort c

          1. abort , abortion (the process of ending a pregnancy)
            Hon gjorde abort
            She had an abortion
          2. (obsolete ) an abort , a miscarriage
            Synonyms: missfall , spontanabort

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          abort

          1. Latin spelling of аборт (abort)

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