{"id":150,"date":"2014-05-15T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-05-15T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:08:12","slug":"abortive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abortive\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abortive (unsuccessful)<\/h3>\n<p>Abortive means unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The terrorist made an <strong>abortive attempt<\/strong> to blow up the bridge. (Their attempt to blow up the bridge was not successful.)<\/li>\n<li>I made an <strong>abortive effort<\/strong> to bake a cake yesterday. (My effort was not successful.)<\/li>\n<li>His attempt to climb the tree was <strong>abortive<\/strong>. He fell down when he was halfway up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To <strong>abort<\/strong> something is to end it before it is completed.<\/p>\n<p>We had to <strong>abort the vacation<\/strong> when dad fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>To abort a pregnancy is to terminate it by bringing forth the fetus from the uterus before it is viable.<\/p>\n<h3>Related words<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Abort (verb)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Abortion (noun)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortive (unsuccessful) Abortive means unsuccessful. The terrorist made an abortive attempt to blow up the bridge. (Their attempt to blow up the bridge was not successful.) I made an abortive effort to bake a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-abortive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}