miscarry (redirected from miscarries)

mis·car·ry  (mskr, ms-kr)

v. mis·car·ried, mis·car·ry·ing, mis·car·ries

v.intr.

1. To have a miscarriage

2. To go astray or be lost in transit, as mail or cargo.

3. To fail to attain an intended goal, as a plan or project.

v.tr.

To have a miscarriage of (an embryo or fetus).

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miscarry [mɪsˈkærɪ]

vb -ries, -rying, -ried (intr)

1. (Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) to expel a fetus prematurely from the womb; abort

2. to fail all her plans miscarried

3. (Business / Commerce) Brit (of freight, mail, etc.) to fail to reach a destination

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	miscarry - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" go wrong, fail take it on the chin - undergo failure or defeat miss - fail to reach or get to; "She missed her train" overreach - fail by aiming too high or trying too hard bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blow - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" strike out - be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan" fall - suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside" shipwreck - suffer failure, as in some enterprise fall flat, fall through, founder, flop - fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
	2.	miscarry - suffer a miscarriage abort - terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion carry to term - carry out a pregnancy; "She decided to carry the child to term, even though the foetus was shown to be defective"

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miscarry

verb

1. have a miscarriage, lose your baby, have a spontaneous abortion Many women who miscarry eventually have healthy babies.

2. fail, go wrong, fall through, come to nothing, misfire, go astray, go awry, come to grief, go amiss, go pear-shaped (informal), gang agley (Scot.) My career miscarried when I thought I had everything.

Translations

miscarry [mɪsˈkærɪ] VI

1. (Med) → abortar

2. (= fail) [plans] → fracasar, malograrse(Peru)

miscarry [ˌmɪsˈkæri] vi

[woman] → faire une fausse couche

(= fail) [plans] → avorter

miscarry

vi

(Med) → eine Fehlgeburt haben

(= fail: plans) → fehllaufen, fehlschlagen

(form, letter, goods) → fehlgeleitet werden

miscarry [ˌmɪsˈkærɪ] vi

a. (Med) → abortire

b. (fail, plans) → andare a monte, fallire