abort
verb (used without object)
to bring forth a fetus from the uterus before the fetus is viable; miscarry.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Not that he will seriously try to open it; for with the ability to read the desire to read will have aborted.
From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes