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# abortion

«abortion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a medical operation or treatment that ends a pregnancy on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an abortion, abortions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An abortion is a medical operation or treatment that ends a pregnancy on purpose, so a baby is not born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#m1)

2) (formal, rare) An abortion can mean a plan or attempt that fails and is stopped early. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A serious adult topic in health education, news and politics; people have strong and different views about it. In science it is a medical word. Gentle words used instead include «termination». In older or technical language «abort» means stop early, as in «abort the mission».

### examples

- Abortion is a medical topic that adults often debate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x1)
- Some people support abortion rights and others are against them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x2)
- The news talked about new laws on abortion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x3)
- A doctor explained what an abortion is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x4)
- Different countries have different rules about abortion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x5)
- The space mission was aborted because of a fault. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/#x6)

### note

Countable or uncountable. Verb: abort (also used for stopping a mission or computer task). Adjective: abortive (formal: failed). It is a sensitive subject; talk about it respectfully.

### In the corpora

- ["Termination" is the official word for an abortion, ending a pregnancy on purpose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abortion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abortion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.