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 abortive [ə'bɔ:tiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 流产的, 堕胎的, 失败的

[医] 流产的; 顿挫的


  1. I made an abortive attempt to win his support.
    我白费了力气去赢得他的支持。
  2. It would be an abortive effort to try to close this wide price gap.
    设法缩小这样大的价格差距将是徒劳的。
  3. Bribery-pander crime involves crime with non-guilty distinguishing during the judicial practice, the asserting of the accomplished, abortive and ending form of the crime, involve the differentiation and connection among briber
    介绍贿赂罪在司法实践中涉及罪与非罪的鉴别,犯罪的既遂、遂和终止的不同形态的认定,也涉及介绍贿赂罪与诈骗罪、旋受贿罪、贿罪的帮助犯以及与侵占罪的区分与联系。


abortive
[ adj ]
failing to accomplish an intended result
<adj.all>
an abortive revolta stillborn plot to assassinate the President


Abortive \A*bor"tive\, a. [L. abortivus, fr. aboriri. See
{Abort}, v.]
1. Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive
child. [R.]

2. Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive
vellum. [Obs.]

3. Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] ``Plunged in
that abortive gulf.'' --Milton.

4. Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying;
fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. ``An
abortive enterprise.'' --Prescott.

5. (Biol.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary;
sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

6. (Med.)
(a) Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. --Parr.
(b) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid
fever.


Abortive \A*bor"tive\, n.
1. That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an
abortion. [Obs.] --Shak.

2. A fruitless effort or issue. [Obs.]

3. A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing
abortion; -- also called an {abortifacient}. --Dunglison.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

  1. One year ago Saturday, about 2,000 Tibetans led by Buddhist monks burned a police station in Lhasa, capital of the Himalayan nation, and attacked police in the bloodiest uprising since an abortive bid for independence in 1959.
  2. Since BTR's abortive bid for the company in 1987, Pilkington has underperformed the All-Share by 61 per cent. But its woes are not all sui generis.
  3. The Kennedy Center circulated fliers around town announcing auditions for "macho he-men" to appear this week in Hungarian choreographer Laszlo Seregi's balletic tale of an abortive slave uprising in ancient Rome.
  4. Her father took her to the beach a few years after the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, which so embarrassed President Kennedy, and, pointing north, told her that the Americans might come again.
  5. They broke off diplomatic relations in 1986 claiming Syria was involved in an abortive attempt to smuggle a bomb aboard an Israeli jetliner at London.
  6. Witnesses said a group of about 20 or 30 people laid flowers in mid-afternoon at the eternal flame to a Hungarian premier executed in the abortive 1848 revolution against Austria and stepped back into a crowd of about 400 people who had gathered.
  7. In 1959, the Dalai Lama, Tibet's leader, and thousands of Tibetan refugees fled to India after an abortive, anti-Chinese uprising.
  8. Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone, sold 580,000 shares in December last year at 355p and was buying heavily in Racal Electronics, at the time as the abortive bid by Williams Holdings.
  9. He is said to know budget arithmetic as well as Stockman; and so far, with one notable setback _ heading Bush's abortive drive last year for a cut in the capital gains tax _ he has been the better salesman.
  10. El-Bashir said the abortive coup was plotted by "the alliance in coalition with the outlaws."
  11. Gabicci announced pre-tax losses of Pounds 476,000 (Pounds 538,000 profits) for the six months ended December 19. The group made an exceptional charge of Pounds 537,000 which included the costs of abortive merger talks and a provision for a bad debt.
  12. The BAe board recognises that there would be some benefits from a link to GEC; there were abortive talks between the two companies on the subject last year.
  13. Russia is to ask Switzerland to lift its banking secrecy laws to help it trace funds that disappeared from Soviet coffers around the time of last August's abortive coup.
  14. And Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis investor, also was unsuccessful in using a solicitation in his abortive bid for Pabst Brewing Co. in 1982.
  15. To Malaysia, it is Batu Puteh. In the early 1970s Malaysia lodged a claim to the island. This year a group of Malaysians from Johor made an abortive attempt to plant a flag on it.
  16. MARCH 16 _ Noriega survives abortive coup attempt by dissident officers of Defense Forces.
  17. The PLF also mounted an abortive seaborne raid on Israel in May, which led President Bush to suspend the U.S.'s 18-month dialogue with the PLO.
  18. The newspaper's deficit is estimated at about Dollars 5m for last year. Even before yesterday's SEC suit, Mr Hoffenberg was considered a dubious white knight, with a history of abortive takeovers.
  19. In the White House, Mr. Cribb was an active supporter of Mr. Meese's abortive effort to extend tax-exempt status to the segregated Bob Jones University.
  20. The stake was acquired by GAF prior to its hostile, abortive 1985 takeover bid for the giant Danbury, Conn., chemical company.
  21. But after launching from there an abortive combeack attempt, he was banished to Madeira, where he died a year later at 34.
  22. This was best exemplified last month by Taiwan's abortive attempt to seek membership of the United Nations, from which it was ejected in 1971 when the communist government of the mainland replaced it as the representative of China.
  23. An abortive coup last year followed a meeting between President Vinicio Cerezo and rebel representatives, the last meeting he has held with them.
  24. The Bush administration has been searching for additional ways to weaken Noriega since long before the abortive coup attempt against him almost three weeks ago.
  25. Bush suspended the talks because Arafat refused to condemn an abortive guerrilla attack on Israel.
  26. After an abortive 1972 coup attempt in the former Belgium colony the Tutsi massacred more than 100,000 Hutu, including most of the tribe's educated class, according to human rights groups.
  27. In that year, a pro-Moscow military officer, Maj. Hashem Atta, staged an abortive coup against then-President Gaafar Nimeiri.
  28. Assad eventually expelled the Palestinian group led by terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal which was linked to the abortive bombing and other attacks.
  29. An engineering firm that acted as a consultant to the Washington Public Supply System on abortive plans to build two nuclear power plants has settled with bondholders for $20 million, officials said Monday.
  30. The Palestine Liberation Front, a PLO faction believed to have its main headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, has claimed responsibility for the abortive raid but said it was not aimed at civilians.
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