abortire — meaning in English

English meaning

• abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
• miscarry verb To lose a pregnancy before the foetus can survive outside the womb.

Senses

abortire is used for these senses in English:

• abort (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. [Attested since at least the 19th century.]
• abort (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
• miscarry To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus. [from 16th c.]

abort — full definition

1. verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
2. verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.

miscarry — full definition

1. verb To lose a pregnancy before the foetus can survive outside the womb.
2. verb To fail to succeed, especially when a plan, project or piece of business goes wrong.

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