avortement — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abortion noun The deliberate ending of a pregnancy before the foetus can survive on its own.
Senses
avortement is used for these senses in English:
- abortion (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
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.