abortive 的定义
- failing to succeed; unsuccessful: an abortive rebellion; an abortive scheme.
- born prematurely.
- imperfectly developed; rudimentary.
- Medicine/Medical. producing or intended to produce abortion; abortifacient. acting to halt progress of a disease.
- Pathology. short and mild without the usual, pronounced clinical symptoms.
- Botany. imperfect; unable to germinate.
abortive 近义词
failing to achieve a goal
更多abortive例句
- Migraine drugs fall into two categories: preventive and abortive.
- One time was an abortive interview about the U.S. wars in Indochina which ended with him stomping off.
- The plot against the dictatorship (based on the many abortive coups against Papa Doc).
- Ross later defined this as "the only new idea" that Arafat had presented at the abortive peace talks.
- He recalled previous failed Special Forces operations, including Desert One, the abortive hostage rescue attempt in Iran in 1980.
- As time advanced, these further methods of precaution in their turn proved abortive.
- His first plan had failed through the remissness of others; his second effort to move had been made abortive by the storm.
- The latter, having the trade of the Arkansaw, thereby nearly rendered abortive the exclusive privilege of his rival.
- Having made some assaults which proved abortive owing to the strength of the place,The stratagem by which Philip took Prinassus.
- In Europe, the startling upheavals of the previous year were followed by an Abortive Spanish rising aftermath no less startling.