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Failing to accomplish an intended result.
unsuccessful
stillborn
unfruitful
1
So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the
abortive
Tuesday attack.
2
Americans became interested in several
abortive
uprisings which occurred on the island.
3
The chaplain's pilgrimage to Wintergreen had proved
abortive
;
another shrine was empty.
4
Some investors are calling for an independent inquiry into the
abortive
takeover.
5
An
abortive
insurrection is sure to issue in a more grinding tyranny.
6
Furthermore,
abortive
embryos had the highest activity of three executioner caspase-like enzymes.
7
An
abortive
separatist movement was the chief political sensation of this summer.
8
Subsequent attempts at combinations were made in England, but all proved
abortive
.
9
All other measures will prove
abortive
,
and you will depopulate the country.
10
A plane has been filmed in an
abortive
landing at Aberdeen Airport.
11
Immediately an
abortive
blow from the poet's puny arm swished the air.
12
History is able to record little or nothing of such
abortive
efforts.
13
Thou hast, by entering her womb, rendered the conception of Kunti
abortive
.
14
If not, it was nothing more than an
abortive
attempt-a purpose unfulfilled.
15
He seemed incomplete,
abortive
,
only half finished, and disquieting as a mystery.
16
Alma stared at him, her parted lips quivering with an
abortive
laugh.
abortive
prove abortive
abortive attempt
abortive coup
render abortive
abortive effort