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Etymology

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FromLatinabortiōnem(“miscarriage, abortion”), fromaborior(“to miscarry”). Equivalent toabort +‎-ion. Displaced nativeOld Englishǣwyrp(literally“throwing out, rejection”).

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abortion (countable anduncountable,pluralabortions)

  2. (medicine) The expulsion from thewomb of afoetus orembryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.[from 16th c.]
    1. (now uncommon in general use) Aspontaneous abortion; amiscarriage.
      • 1605 [1578],Josuah, transl. Sylvester, “The Third Day of the First Week”, inDevine Weekes and Workes, translation ofLa Premiere Sepmaine byGuillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, lines693–696:
        Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instantabortion often doth betide.
      • 1809, William Nicholson,The British Encyclopaedia, volume IV:
        At any time after impregnation,abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.
    2. Aninduced abortion.
      Mary decided to have anabortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
      • 1997,George Carlin,Brain Droppings‎[1],New York:Hyperion Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page93:
        It is impossible for anabortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.
      • 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art ofHe Chengyao”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on16 August 2023, Sinosphere‎[3]:
        The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China. Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-day Chongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried. “They were told by the factory, ‘Have anabortion or be fired’,” she said. They chose to keep her and were fired.
      • 2017 October 5, Ben Jacobs,The Guardian‎[4]:
        Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have anabortion.
  3. (now rare) An aborted foetus; anabortus.[from 16th c.]
    • 1791,James Boswell,Life of Johnson, Oxford, published2008, page657:
      ‘It seems too hairy for anabortion, and too small for a mature birth.’
    • 1929,Virginia Woolf,A Room of One's Own:
      The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid littleabortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.
  4. (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; amonstrosity.[from 16th c.]
    • 1846,Charles Dickens, chapter 10, inPictures from Italy‎[5]:
      Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerableabortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
    • 1889,Edward Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come”, inHarper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, page459, column 2:
      His voice was the most pitiableabortion of a voice I had ever heard.
    • 2000, Jules, “please dont buy beacon cd”, inalt.fan.allman-brothers (Usenet):
      Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absoluteabortion of a song.
    • 2003, David Kerekes,Headpress 24: Powered by Love, page133:
      an absoluteabortion of a book
  5. (figuratively) Failure orabandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.[from 17th c.]
    • 1800 September 23,Thomas Jefferson,Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush‎[6]:
      The returning good sense of our country threatensabortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
    • 2013, Fakhry A. Assaad, James W. LaMoreaux, Travis Hughes,Field Methods for Geologists and Hydrogeologists,→ISBN, page314:
      The transfer or loss of the project manager before the project is completed will result in lost continuity and delay or theabortion of the project and/or the report.
    • 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter,Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space,→ISBN, page73:
      […] the abruptabortion of the trip after eleven days.
  6. (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains animperfect formation or isabsorbed.[from 18th c.]
  7. The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

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miscarriage—seemiscarriage
induced abortion
act of inducing abortion
the foetus produced by abortion
biology: arrest of development of an organ
fruit/produce that doesn't come to maturity
the act of aborting a project, etc
something ugly
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