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What is the adjective for abortion?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs abort and abortive which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

abortive
  1. (obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18th century.]
  2. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
  3. (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  4. (medicine) Causing abortion; abortifacient
  5. (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
  6. Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “After several abortive attempts at spelling the name of the street correctly in his notebook, the officer co-opted some bystanders and dragged the poor horse into Hoe Street.”
      “After their first rehearsal, the band decided to scrap their abortive attempts at writing original songs and instead focused on refining their cover repertoire.”
aborted
abortional
  1. (rare) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
abortifacient
  1. Producing miscarriage. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
abortogenic
abortal
  1. Relating to abortion (termination of pregnancy).
aborsive
  1. (obsolete) abortive from the first.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant.”
abortigenic
abortable
  1. Capable of being aborted.
aborting
abortived
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abortive
abortiving
  1. present participle of abortive
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