vruchtafdrijving — meaning in English
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English meaning
- aborticide noun The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
- abortion noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
Senses
vruchtafdrijving is used for these senses in English:
- aborticide The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. [late 19th century]
- abortion An induced abortion.
aborticide — full definition
- noun The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
- noun An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.
abortion — full definition
- noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
- noun A pregnancy that ends naturally and too early to produce a surviving baby; a miscarriage.
- noun The failure or collapse of a plan, project, or process partway through.