as in cancelled
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
had to abort the mission to Mars when they lost contact with the satellite
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Recent Examples of aborted
Under the president’s new blueprints for NASA, the agency looks set to depend on Elon Musk’s outfit to loft future Moon explorers aboard the SpaceX Starship from the Kennedy Space Center as SLS flights are aborted.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Smokejumpers successfully jumped the Log Fire last night, after a morning attempt was aborted due to high winds.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
SpaceX’s Starship's second shot at a 10th test flight Monday was aborted after weather conditions forced the company to halt liftoff from its South Texas site.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Smokejumpers successfully jumped the Log Fire last night, after a morning attempt was aborted due to high winds.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Figgis also has access to footage of Coppola’s earlier, aborted attempts to make Megalopolis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
SpaceX’s Starship's second shot at a 10th test flight Monday was aborted after weather conditions forced the company to halt liftoff from its South Texas site.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aborted
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The final stage of a major bike race was canceled earlier this month after several large pro-Palestinian demonstrations disrupted the event, in protest of the Israel-Premier Tech team’s participation.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
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The incident comes just days after Young cancelled a New Jersey performance that had been scheduled for Friday.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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During a heavy storm, a Reddit user from Mumbai, India, found a cat abandoned outside a shop with her kittens—and the same cat is now the head of their household.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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That theory was strengthened when a grainy surveillance video seemed to capture the family of four crossing the border on the same day their car was abandoned.—
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Textiles have been one of the biggest beneficiaries of AGOA and, by some estimates, up to 300,000 jobs could be at risk if AGOA were scrapped.—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Commissioners officially scrapped the flag-raising idea after weighing input from residents, instead opting Thursday for other ways to remember the many lives lost in the 2023 attack.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Aborted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aborted. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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