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abort

/əˈbɔɹt/noun, verb2 syllables

Abort means: the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed.

What does abort mean?4

noun

1

the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed“I wasted a year of my life working on an abort”

verb

1

terminate before completion“abort the mission”

2

cease development, die, and be aborted“an aborting fetus”

3

terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with abort?22

one syllable

courtshortsortportsportfortcttortmortthwartquartsnort

two syllables

supportreporttransportresortimportescortconsortdeportdistort

three syllables

teleport
Show 40 near rhymes
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Abort in a sentence

  • I don't want to abort the mission now.Hybrid
  • My botched sentence must be the stillborn child of an aborted copy and paste.belgavox
  • My mother nearly aborted me at my birth.LoverofEnglish
  • The world would be a better place if Donald Trump had been aborted.shekitten
  • The computer immediately aborted the procedure.Amastan
  • The mission had to be aborted.CK

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of abort

as a noun

plural
aborts

as a verb

past tense
aborted
present participle
aborting
third-person singular
aborts
past participle
aborted