Answer to "Terminate early" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABORT , but the solution may also be CUTSHORT which is one of the most recent solution (2006 in Boston Globe).

Terminate early crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ABORT	50 %	5
CUTSHORT	50 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Terminate early

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• abort
• abortion
• cans
• cna
• turn
• rise
• put
• can
• checkmate
• die
• expire
• abate

Crossword Answer definitions

ABORT noun

1. A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
2. The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.
3. An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
4. The function used to abort a process.
5. An event involving the abort of a process.

ABORT verb

1. (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
2. To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
3. To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
4. To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
5. To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
6. To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
7. To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
8. To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
9. To terminate a process prior to completion.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ABORT

• Cut short
• Scrub a mission
• End
• Terminate prematurely
• Word shouted when trying to end a mission
• Mission-stopping command
• End early
• Cancel, at NASA
• Cancel a launch
• Cancel, as a mission

More clues leading to the result CUTSHORT

• Terminate early
• Abbreviated
• Curtail, as a visit
• Interrupt.
• Stop abruptly.
• End abruptly
• Abbreviate
• Stop before the end