abort

Verb

Plain form
abort

Third-person singular
aborts

Past tense
aborted

Past participle
aborted

Present participle
aborting

(transitive) If you abort something, you stop something from happening any longer.
The space mission was aborted because there was a fuel leak.

I aborted the computer program since it wasn't working properly.
(transitive) If a doctor aborts an unborn baby, they stop it from being born alive.
The baby was aborted in pregnancy because it was a girl.

The parents aborted the baby because they wouldn't be able to raise it.