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Aborted

Aborted \A*bort"ed\, a.

  1. Brought forth prematurely.

  2. (Biol.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.

  3. stopped prior to normal completion.

    The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.
    --Owen.

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aborted
  1. 1 Brought forth prematurely. 2 (context biology English) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are ''aborted'' branches. v

  2. (en-past of: abort)

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Aborted

Aborted is a Belgian death metal band that formed in Waregem, in 1995. The group consists of vocalist, founder, and only constant member since the band's inception, Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Danny Tunker and Mendel Bij De Leij, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. Although based in Belgium, Aborted's band members are from Belgium, The Netherlands and the United States. The band has released nine studio albums, four EPs and one live performance video album.

Allmusic describes Aborted as "punishing, blast furnace-forged grindcore/death metal" and "unrestrained grindcore savagery and meticulously crafted death metal technicality".

Usage examples of "aborted".

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.

Second, there are so many embryos available from other sources, there is no need to deal with aborted embryos.

Gordon had guessed rightly that Durk Undis did not want to go back to his superior and report the mission aborted by such a slight difficulty.

Paul Marcus was a professional hypnotist that he obtained an aborted glimpse of the rulers of the world.

Ebby had heard scuttlebutt about the close call on the roof after the aborted defection.

When the Julang, designated Target One, had vertical surfaced, Deahl had ordered tubes one and two check fired, the attack aborted, to see what was happening.

Even if Stacy had been the sugar-slinging chain swinger, his ecotage had been aborted.

But his four-phrased, simple explanation was as unrecoverable from my breakfast table as that New Hampshire weekend, the whole aborted year.