Noun: abort
| Singular | abort |
| Plural | aborts |
Sample Sentences
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We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
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We've had three aborts over the last two days.
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In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends. [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vi:]
Nouns inflected like abort
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Latin abortus, perfect active participle of aborior (“miscarry”), formed from ab + orior (“to come into being”). Doublet of abortus. See: Latin Nouns '
abortus'.
Verbs referencing "abort"
Russian Nouns
аборт.