how to pronounce abortion

/əˈbɔːɹʃən/

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abortion is pronounced in three syllables

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video examples of abortion pronunciation

An example use of abortion in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… an abortion for example so we're …”

meaning of abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo from the uterus, usually after the 20th week of gestation.

abortion frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word abortion occurs in english on average 14.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics abortion can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that abortion can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;