All 6 Uses of
abort
in
The Bourne Identity
- 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.†
Chpt 14aborted = terminated (stopped) before completion
- He was reported killed in an abortive coup.†
Chpt 16 *
- Yet whenever he did, he followed an abortive kill with a spectacular, unsolicited one, to uphold his stature.†
Chpt 17
- Then he saw it, and in that unbelievable split half-second he knew the countdown was aborted.†
Chpt 18
- Treadstone's aborted and you walk out free.†
Chpt 32
- 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.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
terminate (stop) before completion