Abort

Definition: Abort

Abort

Verb

1. Terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc.

2. Terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Computing

Aerospace

Food & Agriculture

Post & Telecom

Public Administration

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Crosswords: Abort

Albanian (abortion, misbirth, miscarriage), Danish (abortion, failure, miscarriage), German (abort, abortion, lavatory, miscarriage, privy, toilet), Norwegian (abortion), Swedish (abortion, failure, miscarriage).

Abort (1971)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (reference)

• Abort eller f²dsel (reference)

• Abort! Retry! Fail!/the DOS Answer Book (reference)

• Abort, eller prevensjon? : En unders²kelse over 2794 pasienter ved Sosialistiske legers forening's Klinikk for seksuell opplysning (reference)

• Abort, et valg? : f²dsler, f²dselsbegrµnsning og svangerskabsafbrydelse : baggrund og årsager til udviklingen i aborttallet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Abort (reference)

• To Abort Transmission (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

In addition, effectiveness implies the ability of care takers to abort an apneic episode by techniques they have learned, including resuscitation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "abort": abort the project ♦ abort the uprising. Additional references.

Ending with "abort": no-abort.

Afrikaans

afwys (quash, refuse, reject, wreck), aborteer. (various references)

Albanian

shtie (fire, inoculate, insert, insinuate, introduce, pour, put, shoot), ndërpres (break, break up, call, cease, cut off, desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, punctuate, stop, strangulate, suspend), dështoj (backfire, fail, fall down, fall short, fall short of, fall through, flop, go down the drain, go phut, lose, lose out, miscarry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضع حدا له قبل الأوان, ‏توقف عن النمو, ‏تجهض المرأة, ‏خفق في (come unstuck), ‏جهض (miscarry, naught, outflank), ‏ألغى (abolish, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осуетявам (baffle, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, spoil, wash out), неуспял полет, закърнявам (atrophy), абортирам (miscarry), претърпявам крах (crash), претърпявам неуспех (come off second best), помятам (cast, drop, miscarry, slink, slip). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�弃 (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitted, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

Czech

selhat (backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, fizzle out, give out, go wrong, lapse, miscarry, misfire), potratit (miscarry), přerušit (adjourn, black out, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), odložit (adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, take off, throw away), nezdařit se (fail). (various references)

Danish

afslut, afbryde (break, cut, cut a connection, interrupt, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off), afbryd, abortere, nedkastning, kommunikationsafbrud, ikke fuldføre opgave, ikke fuldføre. (various references)

Dutch

mislukken (be bankrupt, come to nothing, decline, fail, go broke, miscarry, recede). (various references)

Esperanto

abortigi, aborti (miscarry), malsukcesigi (quash), malsukcesi (fail), forvelki, fiaskigi (quash), fiaski (fail). (various references)

Faeroese

miseydnast (fail, miscarry). (various references)

Farsi 

نارس ماندن , سقطکردن , عقیم ماندن (Miscarry), ریشه نکردن , بی نتیجه ماندن , بچه انداختن (Miscarry). (various references)

Finnish

abortti (abortion), lentosammutus, kumoaminen (annulment), keskeytys (break, interruption, interval), keskeyttää (break off, discontinue, interrupt). (various references)

French

avorter, interrompre, faire avorter, abandon (abandonment). (various references)

Frisian

mislearje (fail, miscarry), feile (fail, miscarry), fale (fail, miscarry). (various references)

German

abortieren (miscarry), abbrechen (abbort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, sever, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate), fehlgebären (abortiveness, miscarry, to abort), abtreiben (be driven off course, bring down, float away, float off, procure abortion, sponge down, to abort), Abbruch (abortion, break off, cutting, damage, demolition, derogation, discontinuation, dropout, harm, rupture, severance, termination, truncation). (various references)

Greek 

ματαιώνω (balk, call off, cancel, circumvent, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, thwart), αποβάλλω (cast off, discard, elide, expel, expel from, miscarry, repudiate, send down, send out 1, shed), ρίχνω (bring down, chuck, dart, drop, dump, hurl, pour, pour out, throw, topple, toss), διακόπτω (adjourn, break in, break off, cease, chip in, cut in, cut off, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבטל תכ� ית. (various references)

Hungarian

megszakít (break off, cut off, intermit, interrupt, intersect, miscarry, to break off, to cut off, to intermit). (various references)

Icelandic

missa fóstur (miscarry). (various references)

Indonesian

menggugurkan (topple), mengarbosi, keguguran (abortion, have a miscarriage, miscarriage), gugur (deciduousis, drop out, fall, miscarry). (various references)

Italian

abortire (drift, fail, miscarry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

アヘン中�' (aperitif, append, appetizer, availability, Ave Maria, avenue, average, average golfer, avocado, axolotl, back-to-back homeruns, edible salamander, Hail Mary, Mexican walking fish, neotonous salamander, opium poisoning, together, with someone). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アボート . (various references)

Korean 

비행 중지. (various references)

Malay

gagal (fail, miscarry). (various references)

Manx

tilgey (cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting), scuirr (adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), cur jeh (deter, disrobe, postpone, postponement, shake off, undressing, waive, work off). (various references)

Norwegian

abortere. (various references)

Papiamen

abortá, frakasá (fail, miscarry), faya (fail, miscarry). (various references)

Pig Latin

abortay.(various references)

Portuguese

abortar (miscarry, slip). (various references)

Romanian

eşua (beach, break down, come down, drop through, fail, fall, founder, ground, miscarry, pile up, run aground, run ashore, strand). (various references)

Russian 

выкидывать, прерывать отказ, преждевременно родить, потерпеть неудачу (come a cropper, come to grief, draw a blank, fall short of, fall through, fizzle out, go flop, go phut, go to the wall, miscarry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekinuti (adjourn, break off, cease, cut, cut off, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever), prekid (abruption, adjournment, break, cease, cessation, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, disruption, interlude, intermission, interruption, letup, pause, rupture, severance), pobaciti (miscarry), neuspeh (boner, bust, failure, fizzle, muff). (various references)

Spanish

abortar (cause to miscarry, miscarry), aborto (abortion, failure, misbirth, miscarriage, scrub). (various references)

Swedish

abortera. (various references)

Turkish

iptal etmek (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, stultify, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), gelişememek, durdurmak (arrest, baulk, block, bring short, call a halt, call off, cease, check, choke back, choke down, choke off, collar, Crimp, deactivate, discontinue, draw up, give over, halt, hold back, hold up, intercept, intermit, jam, jugulate, lock, paralyse, paralyze, pull in, pull up, put a stop to, shut off, stanch, staunch, stay, stem, still, stop, Stow, suppress, suspend), düşük yapmak (miscarry), başarısızlıkla sonuçlanmak (bust up), çocuk düşürmek (miscarry). (various references)

Ukrainian

викидати (belch, cast away, cast up, detrude, eject, obtrude, scrap, throw out), зазнати невдачі (come to grief, fail, fall down, fall short, fall through, flop, miss the bus, mucker), пердчасно народжувати. (various references)

Welsh

erthylu (miscarry). (various references)

Zulu

-ehluleka (fail, miscarry). (various references)

abstracta, abstracti, abstrahatur, abstrahere, abstraherent. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "abort": aborted, aborter, aborters, abortifacient, abortifacients, aborting, abortion, abortionist, abortionists, abortions, abortive, abortively, abortiveness, abortivenesses, aborts. (additional references)

Words containing "abort": antiabortion, antiabortionist, antiabortionists, postabortion, proabortion. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abort" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abar, abart, abbottt, Abboxry, Abiru, aboat, aborm, aborn, aborr, abot, abott, abour, abowt, abowte, abro, abrod, Abtot, abur, Aibert, ajort, Alburt, anort, aort, asort, avoret, avort, axor, azor, Babworth, Barot, Bauart, bort, Cabourg, Kabarti, Ubolrat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: boart, tabor.

-1 letter: boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, brat, rato, rota, taro, tora.

-2 letters: abo, arb, art, bar, bat, boa, bot, bra, bro, oar, oat, ora, orb, ort, rat, rob, rot, tab, tao, tar, tor.

-3 letters: ab, ar, at, ba, bo, or, ta, to.

+1 letter: abator, aborts, boarts, boater, borate, rabato, rebato, rubato, tabors, tabour.

+2 letters: abators, abettor, aborted, aborter, acrobat, airboat, baronet, bloater, boaster, boaters, borated, borates, borstal, bothria, bromate, orbital, outbark, outbrag, probate, rabatos, rebatos, reboant, robusta, rowboat, rubatos, sorbate, tabored, taborer, taboret, taborin, tabours, tambour, tollbar, vibrato.

+3 letters: abattoir, abductor, abettors, aborters, aborting, abortion, abortive, abrogate, acrobats, airboats, arboreta, arborist, balloter, bareboat, barefoot, baritone, baronets, barrator, barretor, barstool, barytone, bathrobe, bathroom, bergamot, betatron, bevatron, biforate, bloaters, boasters, boatyard, boracite, borating, borstals, breakout, broadest, brocatel, bromated, bromates, browbeat, cabestro, cabresto, combater, corybant, fireboat, hardboot, laborite, marabout, mobocrat, obdurate, obituary, oblatory, obtainer, obturate, obviator, orbitals, oribatid, outbarks, outboard, outbrags, outbrave, outbrawl, outbreak, overbeat, portable, portably, probated, probates, reobtain, roborant, robustas, rowboats, runabout, saboteur, sorbates, sortable, sortably, storable, strobila, surfboat, taborers, taborets, taborine, taboring, taborins, taboured, tabourer, tabouret, tagboard, tamboura, tambours, tarboosh, teaboard, tollbars, trilobal, turbocar, turbofan, vibrator, vibratos, workboat.