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Answer for the clue "Call off, as a mission ", 5 letters:
abort

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Word definitions for abort in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The law allows women to abort an early-stage pregnancy. ▪ The mission was aborted after news came of the capture of the city. ▪ The plane had already started its descent when the pilot received orders to abort his landing. ...

Usage examples of abort.

Former NATO general Wesley Clark was only slightly more explicit than all the other Democratic candidates for president, saying a woman should be free to abort her baby right up until the moment of birth.

Then suppose the parents decide they do not want a child who would suffer from those characteristics and abort on this basis?

It provides a complete array of services to young people who decide not to abort their babies and instead carry them to term.

I was sitting there listening to her go on about abortion, I casually made an off-mike comment to my call screener that I wished I could abort this call.

He went to the management of the station and told them I was planning to abort calls.

After all, I needed to know at what point it was unsafe for me, the host, to abort the caller.

The central issue was whether Roe had a right to abort her baby although her life was not at risk.

NARAL Pro-Choice America even decided not to oppose a bill that would require doctors to anesthetize babies being aborted after the twentieth week of pregnancy, called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.

I knew he usually aborted only married women, in their late twenties and thirties.

We can also demonstrate that she was twice aborted by Peter Randall and that in all likelihood he performed the third abortion.

If he had been willing to see her aborted, he would have done it himself.

I respond by pointing out that one of those babies that was aborted thirty years ago might have grown up to be a brilliant scientist and could have discovered the cure for AIDS.

I asked my audience if any of them wanted to volunteer to be the first aborted call in the history of radio.

Some people even called up and wanted to record the historic moment when they were aborted by Rush Limbaugh so they could play it for friends.

While it is indeed possible to derive stem cells from aborted embryos, it is seldom done for two reasons.