Talk:abortive
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Sense #2 of the adjective: Made from the skin of a still-born animal.Speednat (talk) 21:58, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
- No idea, but example sentences are in with the definitions, could someone fix that. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:21, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. Was already removed by another user. - -sche (discuss) 07:23, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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Abortive, “unsuccessful because cut short,” takes on the figurative sense of aborted (Note that -ive, an active suffix, here has a passive sense.) Abortive is archaic in reference to abortions of fetuses, except in the sense “causing an abortion.” --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:22, 9 August 2021 (UTC)