- abortion
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)II(Roget's IV) n.1. [Expulsion of a fetus from the womb]Syn. unnatural birth, arrested development, termination of pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth, premature labor, premature delivery, casting, aborting, untimely birth, forced birth.2. [Something malformed or incomplete]Syn. abnormality, malformation, monstrosity; see freak 2 .3. [A failure]Syn. fiasco, total loss, disaster; see failure 1 .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.1. miscarriage feticide, termination, aborticide, dilation and evacuation, expulsion, infanticide. ''The direct murder of the innocent.''—Pope Pius XI. ''If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.''—Florynce R. Kennedy.2. failure incompletion, defeat, disaster, blunder, monstrosity.
English dictionary for students. 2013.