had been aborting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of abort.
  abort

  verb (used without object)

  to bring forth a fetus from the uterus before the fetus is viable; miscarry.

Related Words

• break off
• cut off
• halt
• interrupt
• nullify
• scrap
• scrub
• terminate