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Meanings of abortive in English
Usage of abortive in English
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.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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