FromMiddle English , fromLatin abortus , perfect active participle ofaborior ( “ miscarry ” ) , formed fromab +orior ( “ come into being ” ) .Doublet ofabortus .
abort (plural aborts )
( 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 hadaborts on three of our last seven launches.
( computing ) Thefunction used to abort aprocess .( computing ) Anevent in which a process is aborted.We've had threeaborts over the last two days.
( now rare ) Theproduct of a miscarriage; anaborted offspring; anabortion .[First attested in the early 17th century.] ( obsolete ) Amiscarriage ; anuntimely birth; anabortion .[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 anabort , which Aristotle commends.
early termination of a mission
function used to abort a process
event to abort a computer process
FromLatin abortare , fromabortus , fromaboriri ( “ miscarry ” ) , fromab- ( “ not ” ) +oriri ( “ come into being, arise, appear ” ) .
abort (third-person singular simple present aborts ,present participle aborting ,simple past and past participle aborted )
( intransitive , now rare outside medicine ) Tomiscarry ; to bring forth (non-living) offspringprematurely .[First attested in the mid 16th century.] 1785 , Henry Morris,Surgical Diseases of the Kidney , page458 :Women haveaborted , 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 , page346 :In the study group ll patientsaborted spontaneously between the 17th and 20th gestational week and 8 patientsaborted after the 21st week.
( transitive , intransitive ) To cause apremature termination of (afetus ); to end a pregnancy before term.[Attested since at least the 19th century.] 1961 ,Xavier Herbert ,Soldiers' Women , Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published1978 , page236 :"Of course, you can'tabort yourself...I mean you positively can't be allowed to. To begin with it's a crime."
( transitive ) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.[First attested in the late 16th century.] ( intransitive ) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.[First attested in the late 16th century.] ( intransitive , biology ) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remainrudimentary orshrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to becomesterile .[First attested in the mid 19th century.] ( 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.] ( intransitive , military ) Toabandon amission 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 heaborts the take-off andnow we have a runway incursion!
( 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.] ( transitive , computing ) Toterminate a process prior tocompletion .Terms derived fromabort (verb)
to miscarry
Arabic:يُجْهِض ( yujhiḍ ) Egyptian Arabic:يجهض ( yegheḍ ) ,يسقط ( yesaʔaṭṭ ) Armenian:վիժել (hy) ( vižel ) Bulgarian:помятам (bg) ( pomjatam ) ,абортирам (bg) ( abortiram ) Burmese:ကိုယ်ဝန်ပျက် (my) ( kuiywanpyak ) ,သားပျက် (my) ( sa:pyak ) ,သားလျှော (my) ( sa:hlyau: ) ,ဇီးလျှော (my) ( ji:hlyau: ) Catalan:avortar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:流產 / 流产 (zh) ( liúchǎn ) ,小產 / 小产 (zh) ( xiǎochǎn ) ,墮胎 / 堕胎 (zh) ( duòtāi ) Czech:potratit Dutch:(een)miskraam hebben ,(pleaseverify ) voortijdig bevallen Esperanto:aborti Finnish:saada keskenmeno French: faire unefausse couche (fr) Hebrew:הִפִּיל (he) ( hipíl ) Ido:abortar (io) Italian:abortire (it) ,fallire (it) Japanese:流産する (ja) ( ryūzan suru ) Latin:aborior Norwegian:Bokmål:abortere (no) ,spontanabortere Portuguese:abortar (pt) ,perder (pt) Serbo-Croatian:pobaciti (sh) Spanish:abortar (es) Swahili:-avya mimba Swedish: fåmissfall (sv) Telugu:గర్భస్రావం (te) ( garbhasrāvaṁ ) ,గర్భ విచ్ఛిత్తి ( garbha vicchitti ) ,గర్భపాతం ( garbhapātaṁ ) ,గర్భోత్పాటనం ( garbhōtpāṭanaṁ ) Thai:แท้ง (th) ( tɛ́ɛng ) Urdu:حمل ضائع کرنا ( hamal zā'e karnā ) ,حمل اسقاط کرنا ( hamal isqāt karnā ) ,حمل گرانا ( hamal girānā ) ,پیٹ گرانا ( peṭ girānā ) ,اخراج جنین کرنا ( ixrāj-e-janīn karnā ) ,حمل ساقط کرنا ( hamal sāqit karnā )
to cause a premature termination
Armenian:վիժել (hy) ( vižel ) ,վիժեցնել (hy) ( vižecʻnel ) Azerbaijani:uşaq salmaq Chinese:Mandarin:中斷 / 中断 (zh) ( zhōngduàn ) ,放棄 / 放弃 (zh) ( fàngqì ) ,停止 (zh) ( tíngzhǐ ) ,腰斬 / 腰斩 (zh) ( yāozhǎn ) Czech:potratit Dutch: (doen )aborteren ,(pleaseverify ) beëindigen (nl) ,(pleaseverify ) doen mislukken Esperanto:abortigi Estonian:katkestamine Finnish:keskeyttää (fi) French:avorter (fr) ,interrompre (fr) ,abandonner (fr) Georgian:please add this translation if you can Hebrew:הִפִּיל (he) ( hipíl ) Italian:abortire (it) ,interrompere (it) Japanese:堕ろす ( orosu ) Latin:abigo (la) Maori:whakatahe Norwegian:Bokmål:abortere (no) Portuguese:abortar (pt) ,cancelar (pt) Serbo-Croatian:pobaciti (sh) Swahili:-avya mimba ,-toa mimba Swedish:abortera (sv) Telugu:అకాల ప్రసవం ( akāla prasavaṁ ) Thai:ทำแท้ง (th) ( tam-tɛ́ɛng ) Vietnamese:sẩy thai (vi) ,phá thai (vi) Welsh:erthylu (cy)
to stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages
Armenian:ձախողվել (hy) ( jaxoġvel ) Chinese:Mandarin:流產 / 流产 (zh) ( liúchǎn ) ,中斷 / 中断 (zh) ( zhōngduàn ) ,放棄 / 放弃 (zh) ( fàngqì ) ,停止 (zh) ( tíngzhǐ ) ,腰斬 / 腰斩 (zh) ( yāozhǎn ) Dutch:doen stoppen in een vroegtijdig stadium ,voortijdig afbreken Finnish:keskeyttää (fi) Greek:διακόπτω (el) ( diakópto ) Hebrew:ביטל m ( bitél ) ,ויתר (he) m ( vitér ) Japanese:please add this translation if you can Norwegian:Bokmål:abortere (no) ,avbryte (no) ,stoppe (no) ,stanse Swahili:-avya Thai:ยกเลิก (th) ( yók-lə̂ək ) ,เลิก (th) ( lə̂ək ) ,หยุด (th) ( yùt ) Turkish:please add this translation if you can
biology: to become checked in normal development
biology: to cause an organism to develop minimally
Chinese:Mandarin:please add this translation if you can Dutch:please add this translation if you can Finnish:keskeyttää kasvu Norwegian:Bokmål:please add this translation if you can
military: to abandon a mission
Chinese:Mandarin:please add this translation if you can 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
Chinese:Mandarin:終止 / 终止 (zh) ( zhōngzhǐ ) Dutch:annuleren (nl) ,aborteren (nl) ,stoppen (nl) ,afbreken (nl) Esperanto:abortigi ,ĉesigi Finnish:keskeyttää (fi) French:interrompre (fr) ,abandonner (fr) ,échouer (fr) ,s'arrêter (fr) German:abbrechen (de) Indonesian:menghentikan (id) Italian:interrompere (it) ,fermare (it) Maori:haukoti Norwegian:Bokmål:abortere (no) Polish:przerwać (pl) pf Portuguese:abortar (pt) Russian:прервать (ru) pf ( prervatʹ ) Serbo-Croatian:prekinuti (sh) Swedish:avbryta (sv) ,stoppa (sv) Telugu:నిలుపు (te) ( nilupu ) ,ఆపు (te) ( āpu ) ,నిలిచిపోవు (te) ( nilicipōvu ) ,ఆగిపోవు ( āgipōvu )
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rabot ,Bator ,Tobar ,Tabor ,tobra ,Barot ,Barto ,Torba ,boart ,ORBAT ,tabor FromEnglish abort , fromLatin abortare , fromabortus , fromaboriri ( “ miscarry ” ) , fromab- ( “ not ” ) +oriri ( “ come into being, arise, appear ” ) .
abort
toabort ; to cause apremature termination of (afetus ); to end a pregnancy before term FromLatin abortus .
abort
abort ,abortion Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002 ),Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary ][2] , Simferopol: Dolya,→ISBN abort m inan
( medicine ) abortion ( expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed ) Synonym: potrat Declension ofabort (hard masculine inanimate )
abort c (singular definite aborten ,plural indefinite aborter )
abortion miscarriage FromGerman Abort .
abort (genitive abordi ,partitive aborti )
abortion Mu tüdruk tahababorti teha. My girl wants anabortion . miscarriage FromLatin abortus ( “ premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage ” ) , perfect active participle ofaborior ( “ I disappear; miscarry, am aborted (of a baby) ” ) , a compound fromboth ab- ( “ from, away from, off ” ) , fromLatin ab ( “ from, away from, on, in ” ) , fromProto-Italic *ab , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂epó ( “ off, away ” ) +and fromorior ( “ I rise, appear, am born ” ) , fromProto-Italic *orjōr , fromProto-Indo-European *h₃er- ( “ to move, stir, rise, spring ” ) .
abort m (definite singular aborten ,indefinite plural aborter ,definite plural abortene )
( medicine ) anabortion ( termination of pregnancy before the fetus is viable outside the uterus ) Synonyms: misfødsel ,fosterdrap ,svangerskapsavbrytelse ,svangerskapsavbrudd illegalabort ―illegalabortion provosertabort ―provokedabortion ( medicine ) amiscarriage ( abortion that occurs by itself ) Synonym: spontanabort ha enabort ―have anabortion taabort ―induceabortion habituellabort ―habitualabortion (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 , page298 :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 , page295 :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 , page337 :maleriet [var ikke] noe maleri i det hele tatt, men en abort the painting [was] not a painting at all, but an abortion ( medicine ) anabortion ( termination of pregnancy induced by surgery or medication ) Synonyms: abortus provocatus ,fosterfordrivelse ,utskrapning foreta enabort ―perform anabortion kjønnsbetingetabort ―genderedabortion selvbestemtabort ―self-determinedabortion (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 , page136 :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 , page119 :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 , page33 :Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion 1990 ,Kåre Willoch ,Statsminister , page53 :de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion ( medicine , now rare) apremature foetus ( technology ) the act ofaborting Synonym: abortere “abort” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .“abort” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB ).“abort ” inStore medisinske leksikon FromLatin abortus .
abort m (definite singular aborten ,indefinite plural abortar ,definite plural abortane )
abortion ( induced ) miscarriage ( spontaneous ) Synonym: spontanabort Borrowed fromEnglish abort .
abort m inan
( medicine ) abortion ( act of inducing abortion ) Synonym: aborcja Coordinate term: poronienie ( computing ) force quit ,closing ( act of stopping a program ) abort inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANabort in Polish dictionaries at PWNUnadapted borrowing fromEnglish abort .
abort m (plural aborts )
( computing ) abort ( function used to abort a process ) Synonym: abortamento abort c
abort ,abortion ( the process of ending a pregnancy ) Hongjorde abort Shehad an abortion ( obsolete ) anabort , amiscarriage Synonyms: missfall ,spontanabort abort
Latin spelling ofаборт ( abort )