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aborning
[ uh-bawr-ning ]
adverb
- in birth; before being carried out:
The scheme died aborning.
adjective
- being born; coming into being, fruition, realization, etc.:
A new era of architecture is aborning.
aborning
/ əˈbɔːnɪŋ /
adverb
- while being born, developed, or realized (esp in the phrase die aborning )
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Origin of aborning1
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Example Sentences
And green things died and shriveled, aborning: The desert was dotted with dead cattle.
I smiled back, but the smile died aborning, for with one motion she rolled over the rail and was gone!
The Homer she had first known, when the El Hassan scheme was still aborning, had thought of himself as a member of a team.
Talk of the FCC investigation had died aborning, but talk like that was enough to upset anybody.
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