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terminate (stop) before completion
- He was reported killed in an abortive coup.Chapter 16 (9% in)
- He was convinced the woman walking beside him was the carrier of lethal commands that had been aborted by gunfire an hour ago, the orders having been issued by a faceless man who demanded obedience or death.Chapter 14 (41% in)
- Yet whenever he did, he followed an abortive kill with a spectacular, unsolicited one, to uphold his stature.Chapter 17 (74% in)
- Then he saw it, and in that unbelievable split half-second he knew the countdown was aborted.Chapter 18 (64% in)
- Treadstone's aborted and you walk out free.Chapter 32 (82% in)
- Yet the possibility of indiscriminate death caused by a killer in a window or on a rooftop was crazy; the police would come, the street blocked off, even a reverse trap aborted.Chapter 35 (14% in)
There are no more uses of "abort" in The Bourne Identity.
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