Meaning Abortive
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AbortiveTending to cut short the course of a disease, as in abortive polio (polio cut short).
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AbortiveFails to work properly; unfruitful. In veterinary medicine, used to describe an animal that is barren or unable to successfully reproduce.
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Abortivelate 14c., "born prematurely or dead," from Latin abortivus "prematurely born; pertaining to miscarriage; causing abortion," from abort-, past participle stem of aboriri "disa [..]
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AbortiveOnly partially developed, such as incomplete seed or frost-nipped bud. Abscission
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Abortive born prematurely; unnatural. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'}; document.write(ts+'s [..]
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Abortive(adj) failing to accomplish an intended result
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Abortive1. Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. 2. Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum. 3. Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. "Plunged in that abortive gulf." 4. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise [..]
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Abortive
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely.and with utter loss of being / Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.}}
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(biology) Imperfectly fo [..]
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*: By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural his [..]
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