Helen Fenton

Abortive: Definition and part of speech

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Abortive

  1. n. A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
  2. v. Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child.
  3. v. Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
  4. v. Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
  5. v. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
  6. v. Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.
  7. v. Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
  8. v. Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
  9. n. That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
  10. n. A fruitless effort or issue.

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.

Abortion: Definition and part of speech

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Abortion

  1. n. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.
  2. n. The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
  3. n. The immature product of an untimely birth.
  4. n. Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

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.

Aborted: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Abort: Definition and part of speech

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Abort

  1. n. An aborted offspring.
  2. v. i. To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
  3. v. i. To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
  4. n. An untimely birth.

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.