Aborted: Definition and part of speech

Aborted

  1. a. Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.
  2. a. Brought forth prematurely.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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