(rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.

Brought forth prematurely. / Checked in normal development at an early stage. / (biology) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped.

simple past tense and past participle of abort

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

(uncountable) The quality of being abortive. / (countable) The result or product of being abortive.

(obsolete) Abortion.

(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural. / Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. . / (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.

(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. / (obsolete) A fruitless effort.

(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion.