| 单词 | abort |
| 释义 | abort (once / 561 pages) vn To abort something is to end it. When something is aborted, it's finished. In a movie, you may have seen people on some kind of mission yelling "Abort! Abort!" That means "Stop!" When you abort a plan or activity, you're ending it, usually prematurely. If you abort a dinner, you cancel it in the middle. If the police abort a raid, they stop it after it has already begun. A writer could abort a novel after writing a chapter or two. You can't abort something that hasn't been started: that's more like canceling or postponing. WORD FAMILYabort: aborted, aborting, abortion, abortive, aborts+/abortion: abortionist, abortions/abortionist: abortionists/abortive: abortively USAGE EXAMPLESSymptoms include fever, nasal secretions, poor balance, anorexia and aborted pregnancies. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Symptoms include fever, nasal secretions, trouble with balance and anorexia, as well as aborted pregnancies. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Perry is close to Texas energy industry executives, and his political campaigns, including two aborted presidential campaigns, benefited substantially from their donations. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1v terminate before completion abort the mission abort the process running on my computer Hyper end, terminate bring to an end or halt 2v terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion Hypo|Hyper miscarry suffer a miscarriage discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release eliminate (a substance) 3v cease development, die, and be aborted an aborting fetus Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life 4n the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed I wasted a year of my life working on an abort he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area Hyper conclusion, ending, termination the act of ending something |
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