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Abort
- noun - cease development, die, and be aborted; "an aborting fetus"
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- terminate before completion; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer"
- 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"
About
- adjective - (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
- all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"
- in or to a reversed position or direction
Adapt
- verb - adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
Adept
- adjective -
- able, capable
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
Admit
- verb -
- admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar"
- allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air"
- declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
- give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard"
- have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people"
- serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"
Adopt
- verb - choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
- put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"
- take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables"
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?"
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
ADRET
- unknown - The sun-facing side of a mountain, thereby having a higher ambient temperature, and so a different flora and fauna.
Adult
- adjective - (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"
- a fully developed person from maturity onward
- any mature animal
- designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies"
- Grownups
Adust
- adjective - burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"