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miscarry verb [ mɪsˈkari ]

• (of a pregnant woman) experience a miscarriage.
• "Wendy miscarried after five weeks"
Similar: lose one's baby, have a miscarriage, abort, have a spontaneous abortion,
• (of a plan) fail to attain an intended outcome.
• "such a rash crime, and one so very likely to miscarry!"
Similar: go wrong, go awry, go amiss, be unsuccessful, fail, misfire, abort, be abortive, founder, come to nothing, come to grief, meet with disaster, fall through, be ruined, fall flat, boomerang, rebound, backfire, recoil, flop, bite the dust, go up in smoke, go phut,
Opposite: succeed,


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