aborning

[ uh-bawr-ning ]

adverb

1. in birth; before being carried out:

   The scheme died aborning.

adjective

1. being born; coming into being, fruition, realization, etc.:

   A new era of architecture is aborning.

aborning

/ əˈbɔːnɪŋ /

adverb

1. while being born, developed, or realized (esp in the phrase die aborning )

Word History and Origins

Origin of aborning¹

1930–35; a- ¹ + borning irregular for being born; born, -ing ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of aborning¹

C20: from a- ² + borning, from born

Example Sentences

And now, even as “New York, New York” opens, another show is aborning.

From New York Times

Rather, it is the fact Pelosi has been in office so long and generations of would-be successors have aged out and retired from public life, their hopes aborning as her tenure endures.

From Los Angeles Times

On the Australian Embassy, the vertical ribs are the russet color of new copper, just aborning.

From Washington Post

The wish for a movie museum, long aborning in status-conscious Hollywood, found a home.

From Los Angeles Times

In the course of breezily narrating the deficiencies of the past four presidencies, he breaks periodically to remind the reader what an unedifying spectacle Trump was making of himself at each point in time, and how that spectacle exemplified something ugly about the America aborning.

From New York Times