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How to pronounce “abortive”
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Pronunciation guide for abortive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of abortive with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Futurist Transparent Society
Remind me to get a link so you can see my abortive TV show that I was supposedly going
- Definition summary
- (obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural. [c. 1400–mid 1700s][1]
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How to pronounce abortive
Futurist Transparent Society
Remind me to get a link so you can see my abortive TV show that I was supposedly going
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “abortive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural. [c. 1400–mid 1700s][1]
- Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. [from late 1500s].[1]
- (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile. [from mid 1700s][1]
- (medicine, pharmacology, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.
- (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a short and mild progression, without pronounced symptoms.
- Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion. [Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the mid 18th century.][1]
- (obsolete) A fruitless effort. [Attested from the early 17th century until the early 18th century.][1]
- (obsolete) A medicine that causes abortion, an abortifacient.
- (obsolete) A medicine or treatment acting to halt or slow the progress of a disease.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit. [Attested only in the 17th century.][1]
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