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Перевод: abortive

[прилагательное]
неудачный; недоразвитый; бесплодный; абортивный; неудавшийся; сорванный

Тезаурус:

1. The DHAC originated in the abortive attempt to set up a branch of NICRA in Derry.
2. His first reaction was to reject Morgan until he remembered the abortive Cardiff robbery.
3. In some cases, however, the information on contacts may be slender, particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed, and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips, often abortive, to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie - " the one with the long blonde hair, pink mini-skirt, and acne".
4. Task Force Atlantic also attacked and seized the main military prison, freeing some 48 prisoners who had been arrested by Gen Noriega after the abortive coup against him on October 3.
5. The large arch formed part of an early but abortive hydro-electric scheme.
6. Abortive purchases
7. After an abortive attempt to merge with Standard Chartered, whose international network and weak UK base would have provided a good fit, the Midland started to
8. A LISTED Wesleyan chapel facade was blown up with gelignite in an abortive attempt to allow a hard-pressed property developer to build flats in its place, Mr Andrew Chubb, prosecuting, told Plymouth Crown Court yesterday.
9. Also, the history of sculpture includes some account of the abortive plans for sculpture, just as the history of architecture is incomplete as a history of ideas without a knowledge of rejected proposals.
10. There was a (typically) abortive contact with Ferrari, but meanwhile Ken Tyrrell had persuaded Matra to upgrade their F2 car to F1 specifications.
11. He said that Colonel Guillermo Wong, arrested by General Noriega after the rebellion failed, was part of the US plot, but not part of Tuesday's abortive coup.
12. Brunel had also commissioned him to prepare an abortive scheme for him for a house at Watcombe in 1851.
13. That he didso, even after appeals for clemency from abroad, including Britain and France, apparently indicates his concern at the threat posed by the abortive coup, and may presage further measures to demonstrate a firm hand.