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abort (uh BORT) (verb), aborts; aborted; aborting
1. Cows with Bang's disease, an infectious disease of domestic animals, often abort (miscarry) their calves; that is, an involuntary ending of a pregnancy through the discharge of the fetus or the unborn vertebrate from the womb at too early a stage in its development for it to survive.
2. The astronauts aborted (terminated, ended) the space flight when their engine caught fire.

"Abort" comes from abortus, a form of the Latin verb meaning to miscarry or to result in failure.

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abort (uh BORT) (verb), aborts; aborted; aborting
1. To give birth before the fetus is viable; to have a miscarriage; or a reference to something that fails to be completed: "It was very sad that the baby was aborted when the mother fell down the stairs."

"The family will be aborting their trip to the arctic because of the early onslaught of winter."

2. To cut short because of some failure in equipment: "The pilot aborted the flight because of radio failure."

"Failure of the radar system will abort the flight of the spaceship until another day."

3. Etymology: originally, "to set" or "to disappear" (as the sun). Composed of ab-, "from" and oriri- "to arise"; the part of the sky, or the world, in which the sun rises; the East.
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