Abortive

//əˈbɔɹ.tɪv//

"Abortive" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Their effort proved abortive.

This Anglo-Teutonic, castellated, gothized structure must be considered as an abortive production, at once illustrative of bad taste and defective judgment.

an abortive child

Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog!

an abortive attempt

[…] and with utter loss of being / Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf.

The king in vain excused his hasty retreats and abortive enterprises

He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy.

Not surprisingly, ERS has that market covered. It now owns all five of the vehicles fitted with generators for the abortive Nightstar services through the Channel Tunnel.

an abortive organ

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an abortive stamen

an abortive ovule

abortive medicines

Each country may have a different prevalence of infectious abortive agents. The most common agents of abortion in cattle are Brucella spp., Campylobacter spp., Chlamydiaceae, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., […]

abortive treatment of typhoid fever

Even with prophylaxis, children often experience episodic breakthrough headaches that require abortive treatment. […] Abortive therapies in the ED include dopamine antagonists and anti-inflammatory agents.

abortive vellum

Naphthalin was praised by Rosbach as an abortive in typhoid fever; Kraemer in 1886, Wilcox in 1887, Sehwald in 1889 and Wolff of Philadelphia in 1891 confirmed Rosbach's observations.

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