Abort
verb
To stop something before it is complete.
They had to abort the mission due to bad weather conditions.
Often appears as...
- abort a mission
- abort an attempt
verb
To end a pregnancy deliberately.
She decided to abort the baby as she was not ready to raise a child.
Often appears as...
- abort a child
- abort a pregnancy
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Controversial
verb
To cancel a planned event or activity.
The system was about to shut down, so they had to abort it.
Often appears as...
- abort a program
- abort a system
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To stop something before it is complete.
They had to abort the mission due to bad weather conditions.
Often appears as...
- abort a mission
- abort an attempt
verb
To end a pregnancy deliberately.
She decided to abort the baby as she was not ready to raise a child.
Often appears as...
- abort a child
- abort a pregnancy
Usage tips
Controversial
verb
To cancel a planned event or activity.
The system was about to shut down, so they had to abort it.
Often appears as...
- abort a program
- abort a system
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emergency Interruption
Used when urgent circumstances prevent completion of an activity.
A lightning storm forced the team to abort the outdoor event.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-planned Possibility
Considered in situations where there is a high chance of failure or danger.
The flight crew was briefed on a possible abort of the takeoff.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Suddenness
Often suggests an abrupt end rather than a gradual winding down.
The director had to abruptly abort filming due to the actor's injury.
Pro Tip 1/3Emergency Interruption
Used when urgent circumstances prevent completion of an activity.
A lightning storm forced the team to abort the outdoor event.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-planned Possibility
Considered in situations where there is a high chance of failure or danger.
The flight crew was briefed on a possible abort of the takeoff.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Suddenness
Often suggests an abrupt end rather than a gradual winding down.
The director had to abruptly abort filming due to the actor's injury.
Pro Tip 1/3Emergency Interruption
Used when urgent circumstances prevent completion of an activity.
A lightning storm forced the team to abort the outdoor event.
Pro Tip 2/3Pre-planned Possibility
Considered in situations where there is a high chance of failure or danger.
The flight crew was briefed on a possible abort of the takeoff.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Suddenness
Often suggests an abrupt end rather than a gradual winding down.
The director had to abruptly abort filming due to the actor's injury.
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Tyrone Hayes + Penelope...
cannot evolve or adapt fast enough because of the rate that we're generating new chemicals that it's never seen before. The evidence of that is that studies in rats, again with atrazine, show that the hormone imbalance atrazine generates causes abortion. Because maintaining a pregnancy is dependent on hormones. Of those rats that don't abort,
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The Indestructibles -...
praised his experienced friend will save himself as I could see him that his working on the situation trying to better a situation but obviously he couldn't michael has one last chance aborting his malfunctioned parachute and triggering the reserve
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Can you solve the human...
It’s too late to abort the launch; the trapezist will plummet if you don’t catch him in a few minutes. So you’d better get fixing. The cannon was invented by your eccentric mentor, and as usual, his instructions leave something to be desired.
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Sheryl WuDunn: Our...
For instance, in the last half-century, more girls were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the battlefields in the 20th century. Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram. Girls get aborted before they're even born
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NASA’s first software...
mankind was just minutes away from landing on the surface of the moon. But before the astronauts began their final descent, an emergency alarm lit up. Something was overloading the computer, and threatened to abort the landing.
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China's Lost Girls PIPE...
growth in history China's so-called one-child policy it limits millions of families there to having only one child traditionally baby boys are preferred and as a result girls are often abandoned aborted or hidden our cameras
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The weird history of the...
And like, we went nuts with this theory. We called it the supermale, they started scanning more prisoners, serial killers, boys. And in all seriousness, there was actually a suggestion that we consider aborting XYY fetuses.
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One-Child Policy PIPE...
son girl babies were often aborted within a few years the words for brother and sister will disappear in my view the single child policy will lead to a very selfish Society if you do not observe
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Anand Giridharadas: A...
bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons. His mother told him, regretfully, as a boy that she'd been just 50 dollars short of aborting him. Sometimes, that little boy would be at school,
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Extreme Organisms PIPE...
as bedene oh and bernabei abort their mission NASA scientists chris mckay gets ready to look for life with a device that will one day be used to explore
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Tyrone Hayes + Penelope...
cannot evolve or adapt fast enough because of the rate that we're generating new chemicals that it's never seen before. The evidence of that is that studies in rats, again with atrazine, show that the hormone imbalance atrazine generates causes abortion. Because maintaining a pregnancy is dependent on hormones. Of those rats that don't abort,
Video examples
The Indestructibles -...
praised his experienced friend will save himself as I could see him that his working on the situation trying to better a situation but obviously he couldn't michael has one last chance aborting his malfunctioned parachute and triggering the reserve
Video examples
Can you solve the human...
It’s too late to abort the launch; the trapezist will plummet if you don’t catch him in a few minutes. So you’d better get fixing. The cannon was invented by your eccentric mentor, and as usual, his instructions leave something to be desired.
Video examples
Sheryl WuDunn: Our...
For instance, in the last half-century, more girls were discriminated to death than all the people killed on all the battlefields in the 20th century. Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram. Girls get aborted before they're even born
Video examples
NASA’s first software...
mankind was just minutes away from landing on the surface of the moon. But before the astronauts began their final descent, an emergency alarm lit up. Something was overloading the computer, and threatened to abort the landing.
Video examples
China's Lost Girls PIPE...
growth in history China's so-called one-child policy it limits millions of families there to having only one child traditionally baby boys are preferred and as a result girls are often abandoned aborted or hidden our cameras
Video examples
The weird history of the...
And like, we went nuts with this theory. We called it the supermale, they started scanning more prisoners, serial killers, boys. And in all seriousness, there was actually a suggestion that we consider aborting XYY fetuses.
Video examples
One-Child Policy PIPE...
son girl babies were often aborted within a few years the words for brother and sister will disappear in my view the single child policy will lead to a very selfish Society if you do not observe
Video examples
Anand Giridharadas: A...
bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons. His mother told him, regretfully, as a boy that she'd been just 50 dollars short of aborting him. Sometimes, that little boy would be at school,
Video examples
Extreme Organisms PIPE...
as bedene oh and bernabei abort their mission NASA scientists chris mckay gets ready to look for life with a device that will one day be used to explore
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William Stone
American Explorer
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.
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Peter Morgan
British Writer
There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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Amity Shlaes
American Author
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.
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Alveda King
American Clergyman
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
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Michael Zaslow
American Actor
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
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Jeremy Kyle
English Journalist
Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.
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Angela Stanton-King
American Author
How can a dream live if we kill it, right? How many Martin Luther King Jr.s, and Malcom Xs, or Barack Obamas have we aborted?
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Pope Francis
Argentinian Clergyman
Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.
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Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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William Stone
American Explorer
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.
Quote examples
Peter Morgan
British Writer
There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
Quote examples
Amity Shlaes
American Author
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.
Quote examples
Alveda King
American Clergyman
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
Quote examples
Michael Zaslow
American Actor
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
Quote examples
Jeremy Kyle
English Journalist
Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.
Quote examples
Angela Stanton-King
American Author
How can a dream live if we kill it, right? How many Martin Luther King Jr.s, and Malcom Xs, or Barack Obamas have we aborted?
Quote examples
Pope Francis
Argentinian Clergyman
Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.
Quote examples
Alanis Morissette
Canadian Musician
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.
Quote examples
John Kenneth Galbraith
American Economist
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
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