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abort

verb

1 I decided not to abort the pregnancy:

terminate, end;

have an abortion.

2 this organism infects sheep and can cause pregnant ewes to abort:

miscarry, have a miscarriage.

3 the ‘escape’ key is used to abort the program:

halt, stop, end, call off, cut short, discontinue, terminate, arrest, suspend, check, nullify;

informal scrub, axe, pull the plug on.

▷antonyms continue, complete.

4 there are times when the mission aborts:

fail, come to a halt, end, terminate, miscarry, go wrong, not succeed, fall through, break down, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief, fizzle out, flop.

▷antonyms succeed, complete.

abort Oxford Dictionary of English