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Abortion

ABOR'TION, n. [L. abortio, a miscarriage; usually deduced from ab and orior.]
1. The act of miscarrying, or producing young before the natural time, or before the fetus is perfectly formed.
2. In a figurative sense, any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or any thing which fails in its progress, before it is matured or perfect, as a design or project.
3. The fetus brought forth before it is perfectly formed.
abortion appears in definitions for these words:
Aborsement Abort Abortive Cast Castling Miscarriage Miscarry Miscarrying Slip

 

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