OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 197

abortion

/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abortamiento (disused) • aborto • aborto inducido
The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.
It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.
Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
aborto • engendro
A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice I had ever heard.
Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as…
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