aborts
Terminates before completion
Aborts is the verb form of abort—to terminate something before completion.
A pilot aborts a landing, a mission control aborts a launch, a program aborts when it crashes.
Most commonly, abort refers to ending a pregnancy: She aborts the fetus in the first trimester.
The noun aborts, meaning terminated pregnancies or fetuses, is rare outside medical contexts.
Revoke or terminate
- scrubClean by rubbing hard
- terminateBring to an end
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- discontinueTo stop doing
halt · eject · bailout · countdown · launch · liftoff · sequence · procedure
Pregnancy lost naturally
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- fetusGestating offspring
- embryoOrganism before birth
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
trimester · stillbirth · termination · procedure · clinical · therapeutic · elective · complication
cancel
Revoke or terminate
discontinue · halt · eject · bailout · countdown · launch · liftoff · sequence · procedure · protocol
miscarriage
Pregnancy lost naturally
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- fetusGestating offspring
- embryoOrganism before birth
gestation · trimester · stillbirth · termination · procedure · clinical · therapeutic · elective · complication · ectopic
terminate
Bring to an end
exit · interrupt · crash · error · process · program · task · operation · command · execution
misfire
Failure to discharge
- malfunctionFailure to operate properly
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
- collapseSudden structural failure
fiasco · bust · flop · botch · washout · nosedive · setback · defeat · debacle · catastrophe
abortscompletes
Brings to an end
finishes · concludes · accomplishes · fulfills · carries out
- 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, abort, abortive, aborted, aborting, abortionist, abortionists