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Meaning:

Noun:

  • An induced abortion.
  • Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which is interrupted in its progress before it is matured or perfect.
  • art Something ugly, an artistic atrocity.
  • biology Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
  • dated The immature product of an untimely birth.
  • or|dated The cessation of pregnancy or fetal development; a miscarriage.
  • The act of aborting a project, a mission, etc, before it is completed.
  • The act of inducing abortion.

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