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miscarry

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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).

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.miscarry - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
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"

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
(= fail) [plans] → avorter
miscarry
vi
(= fail: plans) → fehllaufen, fehlschlagen
(form, letter, goods) → fehlgeleitet werden
miscarry [ˌmɪsˈkærɪ] vi
a. (Med) → abortire
b. (fail, plans) → andare a monte, fallire

miscarry [ˌmɪsˈkærɪ] vi
a. (Med) → abortire
b. (fail, plans) → andare a monte, fallire


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In the course of this affair I fell very ill, and my melancholy really increased my distemper; my illness proved at length to be only an ague, but my apprehensions were really that I should miscarry.
While they were thus deliberating upon our fate, we were imploring the succour of the Almighty with fervent and humble supplications, entreating him in the midst of our sighs and tears that he would not suffer his own cause to miscarry, and that, however it might please him to dispose of our lives--which, we prayed, he would assist us to lay down with patience and resignation worthy of the faith for which we were persecuted--he would not permit our enemies to triumph over the truth.
A face to make a woman miscarry better than all the drugs and medicines
 
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