abort

1. 1.

   terminate before completion

   “abort the mission”

   “abort the process running on my computer”

   Broaderend
2. 2.

   cease development, die, and be aborted

   “an aborting fetus”

   Broaderdie
3. 3.

   terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

   Broaderexhaust

   Narrowermiscarry

1. 1.

   the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

   “I wasted a year of my life working on an abort”

   “he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area”

   Broadertermination

Other forms of abort

plural

aborts·

past tense

aborted·

present participle

aborting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abort

What does abort mean?

abort means "terminate before completion". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abort?

abort has 2 syllables: a-bort. The stress falls on "bort". In IPA it is /əˈbɔɹt/.

Is abort a common word?

abort is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.