English-French translations for abort

• interrompre
  La décision d'interrompre une grossesse doit toujours revenir à la seule volonté de la femme concernée. Every day, 500 women die from the complications that arise as a result of illegal and risky abortions.
• abandonner
• avorter
  Personne n'a envie d'avorter, personne ne souhaite un avortement à quiconque. No one wants an abortion. No one would wish an abortion on anyone.
• fausse couche
• annuler
• avorton
• cesser
• échouer
• s'arrêter
• torpiller

Definition of abort

• A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
• The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
• The function used to abort a process
• To miscarry; to bring forth offspring prematurely.
• To cause a premature termination of ; to end a pregnancy before term.
• To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
• To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
• To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

Examples

• Weve had aborts on three of our last seven launches
• Weve had three aborts over the last two days

Related words

• abortion
• abortive
• antiabortionist
• aborticide
• abortionist
• aborted
• abortifacient
• abortional
• abortiveness