abort

abort is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
2. intransitive verb. To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
3. noun. An untimely birth.
4. noun. An aborted offspring.
5. noun. the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

   "I wasted a year of my life working on an abort"

   "he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area"

6. verb. terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
7. verb. cease development, die, and be aborted

   "an aborting fetus"

8. verb. terminate before completion

   "abort the mission"

   "abort the process running on my computer"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in abort:

boart, rabot, tabor

Common word forms

aborts, aborted, aborter, aborting

Words from these letters

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