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"
terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"
terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"
CEASE
(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
STOP
CEASEFIRE
truce or temporary cessation of hostilities
COMETOREST
END
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"
bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
a boun
STOP
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
the event of something ending;
a spot where something halts or pauses;
the state of inactivity following an interruption;
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
a brief stay in the course of a journey;
the act of stopping something;
an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
a restraint that checks the motion of something;
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;