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aborior — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
  • disappear verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.

Senses

aborior is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.]
  • disappear (intransitive) To vanish.
  • disappear (transitive, often, euphemistic) To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
  • miscarry To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus. [from 16th c.]
  • pass away (archaic, literary) To disappear; to cease to be; to be no more.

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.

disappear — full definition

  1. verb To vanish from sight; to stop being visible.
  2. verb To go missing, especially suddenly and without explanation.
  3. verb (transitive, informal) To make someone vanish, especially by abducting or killing them for political reasons.

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