Usually means: Termination of pregnancy before birth.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. abortion: Merriam-Webster
  2. abortion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abortion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abortion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abortion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abortion, abortion: Wordnik
  7. abortion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abortion: Wiktionary
  9. abortion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abortion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abortion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abortion: Dictionary.com
  13. abortion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Abortion (disambiguation), Abortion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abortion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abortion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abortion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abortion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abortion: FreeDictionary.org
  20. abortion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abortion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. abortion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. abortion: Rhymezone
  24. abortion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. abortion: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abortion: Eastern Philosophy

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. abortion: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abortion: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Abortion (murder), abortion: Legal dictionary
  7. abortion: Financial dictionary
  8. abortion: Law.com Dictionary
  9. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abortion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. abortion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Abortion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Abortion: Merck Manuals
  4. Abortion: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  7. Abortion (murder), abortion: Medical dictionary
  8. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Abortion: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  12. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Abortion: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abortion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF DAIRY TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.
noun:  (now uncommon in general use) A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
noun:  An induced abortion.
noun:  (now rare) An aborted foetus; an abortus.
noun:  (figuratively) A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
noun:  (figuratively) Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
noun:  (biology) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
noun:  The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

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