aborting
Halting before completion
Aborting is the act of terminating something before completion.
Most often it refers to ending a pregnancy: She considered aborting but decided against it.
In technical contexts, aborting means stopping a process or mission midway: The pilot announced we were aborting the landing.
The word carries the urgency of a decision made under pressure.
Clean by rubbing hard
- cancelRevoke or terminate
- haltComplete sudden stop
- terminateBring to an end
- discontinueTo stop doing
suspend · abandon · disengage · countdown · launch · liftoff · mission control · sequence
Complete sudden stop
- ceaseTo discontinue activity
- cancelRevoke or terminate
- discontinueTo stop doing
- suspendHalt or hang temporarily
interrupt · withdraw · pause · break · arrest · check · cessation · standstill
Pregnancy lost naturally
- terminationAct of ending something
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- fetusGestating offspring
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
trimester · clinic · pro-choice · pro-life · reproductive rights · family planning · contraception · mifepristone
scrub
Clean by rubbing hard
discontinue · suspend · abandon · disengage · countdown · launch · liftoff · mission control · sequence · procedure
terminate
Bring to an end
kill · stop · exit · escape · crash · process · task · program · operation · command
halt
Complete sudden stop
- ceaseTo discontinue activity
- cancelRevoke or terminate
- discontinueTo stop doing
suspend · interrupt · withdraw · pause · break · arrest · check · cessation · standstill · freeze
miscarriage
Pregnancy lost naturally
- terminationAct of ending something
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
- fetusGestating offspring
gestation · trimester · clinic · pro-choice · pro-life · reproductive rights · family planning · contraception · mifepristone · D&C
- statusespending, active, approved, inactive, completed
- disconnectingdetaching, disconnect, disengaging, detach, disconnecting
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- restrainingconstraining, restricting, limiting, confining, curbing
abortingcompleting
Reaching the end of
finishing · concluding · accomplishing · fulfilling · consummating
abortingcontinuing
Going on without stopping
completing · proceeding · persisting · finishing · persevering
abortinglaunching
Setting something in motion
initiating · starting · commencing · beginning · undertaking
- abortion debateConflict over ending pregnancies
- abortion rightsFreedom to terminate pregnancy
- abortion clinicFacility providing pregnancy termination
- abortion lawsStatutes regulating pregnancy termination
- abortion banLaw forbidding pregnancy termination
- abortion pillsDrugs terminating early pregnancy
abortion, abortive, abortions, abortionist, antiabortion, abortively, abortionists, postabortion, anti-abortion