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English

Etymology

From Latin aborti?nem (“miscarriage, abortion”), from aborior (“to miscarry”). Equivalent to abort +? -ion. Displaced earlier Middle English abort (“abortion”), from the same Latin origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??.?n?/, enPR: ??bôrsh?n
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n

Noun

abortion (countable and uncountable, plural abortions)

1. (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion. [from 16th c.]
   • 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopaedia, vol IV:

     At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.

   • 2017, Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, 5 October:

     Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania will resign from Congress after claims that the anti-abortion Republican had urged a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.

2. (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus. [from 16th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 657:

     ‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:

     The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.

3. (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity. [from 16th c.]
4. (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc. [from 17th c.]
5. (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. [from 18th c.]
6. The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

Synonyms

• abort (obsolete), abortus
• (induced abortion): aborticide, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
• (act of terminating pregnancy): aborticide, embryoctony, feticide, foeticide, termination (of pregnancy)
• (spontaneous abortion): miscarriage, misbirth

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• abortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• boration, orbation, rainboot

English

Etymology

abort +? -er

Noun

aborter (plural aborters)

1. One who or that which aborts.
   • 1927, Infectious Abortion of Cattle, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1536, p. 6,^[1]

     Although cows which have aborted may conceive at the first service, it is often necessary to breed an aborter repeatedly before conception takes place.

   1. (derogatory) One who has an abortion.
      • 1992, D. C. Reardon, Life Stories, Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, Chapter One, p. 8,^[2]

        […] these findings are consistent with other studies which have shown that most aborters tend to be highly informed about contraceptives but failed to use them at the time they became pregnant.

2. (rare) One who performs an abortion.
   • 1963, Richard H. Kuh, “A Prosecutor Considers the Model Penal Code,” Columbia Law Review, 63.4, p. 616,^[3]

     But when is one an accomplice? Is a thief the accomplice of his receiver, a briber the accomplice of the official he corrupts […] an abortee the accomplice of the aborter […] ?

Synonyms

• (one who has an abortion): abortee
• (one who performs an abortion): abortionist

Related terms

• abortee
• abortion

Derived terms

• habitual aborter
• recurrent aborter

Translations

Anagrams

• Barreto, Roberta, arboret, taborer

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /a?b???r/, /a?b??t?r/
• (verb): IPA^(key): /ab???e?r/, /ab???te?r/
• (noun):
• (verb):
• Rhymes: -???r, -??t?r, -e?r
• Hyphenation: ab?ort?er

Noun

aborter m

1. indefinite plural of abort

Verb

aborter

1. imperative of abortere

Anagrams

• abroter, arboret, borater, trebora

Swedish

Noun

aborter

1. indefinite plural of abort