abort

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive. 使流產(chǎn)
Her lover walked out on her after she had aborted their child. 在她打掉了他們的孩子之后，她的情人離開了她。
2. V-T If someone aborts a process, plan, or activity, they stop it before it has been completed. 中途放棄
When the decision was made to abort the mission, there was great confusion. 中途放棄這次任務(wù)的決定引起了嚴(yán)重混亂。

This change in the law would make abortion illegal except for strictly defined medical reasons .
We're conducting a poll to find out what people think about abortion .
Some women choose to have an abortion rather than care for a severely disabled child .
Her husband longed for children , and she had an abortion without telling him.
Many women die or become infertile as a result of unsafe abortions .