Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb While coming into being or being created.
- adjective Coming into being or being created.
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- verb Present participle of
aborn .
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Examples
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My main point was that it's far more than "some Dems" who have forsaken the True Path - It's the majority, or this foolishness would have died aborning.
Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Politically, this same self-reliance drives young people into Unparties — outside-the-box movements such as the "Tea Party" (on the right) and the aborning "Coffee Party" (on the center-left).
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Fortunately, the bill died aborning, yet another scratch for a man with one of the Senate's thinnest records of legislative accomplishment.
Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011
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Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself.
Islam 2009
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Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself.
Atheism 2009
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Fortunately, the bill died aborning, yet another scratch for a man with one of the Senate's thinnest records of legislative accomplishment.
Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011
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Fortunately, the bill died aborning, yet another scratch for a man with one of the Senate's thinnest records of legislative accomplishment.
Jed Horne: Senator Vitter Discovers Adam Smith Jed Horne 2011
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Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself.
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He told Derrick the same thing he had said to Trist: He must treat his assignment with absolute secrecy, lest the entire enterprise die aborning.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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He told Derrick the same thing he had said to Trist: He must treat his assignment with absolute secrecy, lest the entire enterprise die aborning.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
slumry commented on the word aborning
Nice word! It has not come to mind for a long time--thank you, Jword.
July 10, 2007
seanahan commented on the word aborning
I've never heard this one, but I like it.
July 11, 2007
bilby commented on the word aborning
"In universities at least as much as anywhere else, vast floods of words pour forth to no useful end. Nothing would be lost if they had died aborning."
- Loren Lomasky, 'Talking the talk: Have universities lost sight of why they exist?', Reason, May 2001.
March 5, 2009