aborn

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ born.

Pronunciation

  • (US)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Adjective

aborn (not comparable)

  1. born, begotten, created, developed
    • 1996 September 26, Newsweek, quotee, “A Tale of Exes and Ohs”, in The Daily Beast‎[1], retrieved 14 September 2012:
      After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip.
    • 2009 May 31, “Star Trek”, in Ron's Log‎[2], retrieved 14 September 2012:
      ... or (B) explain it away as something caused by the circumstances of his birth: "Aye, we often see these moles on babes aborn on escape wessels under Romulan attack ... "

Verb

aborn

  1. past participle of abear

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