aborting

verb

Meaning

(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

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