ETYM Latin abortare, from abortus, p. p. of aboriri; ab + oriri to rise, to be born. Related to Orient.
1. To terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion.
2. To terminate before completion, as of a computer process, a mission, etc.

1. To break from a meeting or gathering; SYN. withdraw, retire.
2. To close at the end of a session; SYN. recess, break up.

(Homonym: brake)
(Irregular preterit, past participle: broke, broken)
1. To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting
2. To become punctured or penetrated or separated into pieces; SYN. separate, split up, fall apart, come apart.
3. To break a piece from a whole; SYN. break off, snap off.
4. To destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
5. To go to pieces; to stop operating; SYN. wear, wear out, bust, fall apart.
6. To stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; SYN. hold on, stop.
7. To change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
8. To come forth or begin from a state of latency
9. To scatter or part
10. To render inoperable or ineffective
11. To diminish or discontinue abruptly
12. To cause to give up a habit
13. To exchange for smaller units of money
14. To curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
15. To stop or interrupt
16. To vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
17. To weaken or destroy in spirit or body.
18. To cause the failure or ruin of
19. (Pool) To make the opening shot that scatters the balls, in billiards or pool.
20. Said of the male voice in puberty
21. To move away or escape suddenly; SYN. break out, break away.
22. To invalidate by judicial action
23. To happen or take place; (informal).
24. To be crushed in spirit; to be suddenly and completely demoralized
25. To be released or become known; of news; SYN. get out, get around.
26. To come to an end + prikaži više

1. To stop performing an action.
2. To interrupt an action.

1. To cut off the end or tail of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
2. To interrupt.

1. To cut off and stop; SYN. cut out.
2. To remove by or as if by cutting; SYN. chop off, lop off.

1. To cause to end earlier than intended.
2. To interrupt before its natural or planned end; SYN. break short, break off.

1. To come or be at an end.
2. To put an end to a state or an activity; SYN. stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off.

To throw into disorder.

1. To damage as if by shaking or jarring.
2. To move deeply; SYN. upset, trouble.

To seize on its way, such as a letter; SYN. stop.

1. To destroy the peace or tranquility of; SYN. disturb.
2. To end prematurely; SYN. break.
3. To interfere in someone else's activity; SYN. disrupt.
4. To make a break in; SYN. disrupt, break up, cut off.
To stop a process in such a way that it can be resumed.

1. To cause to die; put to death
2. To deprive of life
3. To destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
4. To be fatal
5. To thwart the passage of; SYN. defeat, vote down, vote out.
6. To tire out completely
7. To be the source of great pain for
8. To hit with great force, in sports
9. To cause to cease operating
10. To hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
11. To mark for deletion or rule out; SYN. obliterate, wipe out.
12. To overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration + prikaži više

(Irregular preterit, past participle: quit).
1. To stop an action.
2. To take leave of one's employment, permanently and abruptly.
3. To exit from an enclosed area.

1. To part by violence; break, burst
2. To create or induce a breach of
3. To produce a rupture in
4. To have or undergo a rupture

1. To cut off from a whole; SYN. lop.
2. To set or keep apart; SYN. break up.

See log off.
1. To announce the end of something (as a message or broadcast)
2. To approve or acknowledge something by or as if by a signature

1. To cause to stop
2. To come to a halt, stop moving; SYN. halt.
3. To interrupt a trip; SYN. stop over.
4. To stop from happening or developing; SYN. halt, block, kibosh.

ETYM Prov. Eng.
1. To make a shift in or exchange of; SYN. change over, shift, turn around.
2. To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; SYN. shift, change.

To terminate abruptly, often used in reference to a program or procedure in progress.