MISCARRY (miscarried)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: miscarried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does miscarry mean? 

• MISCARRY (verb)
  The verb MISCARRY has 2 senses:

1. be unsuccessful

2. suffer a miscarriage

  Familiarity information: MISCARRY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISCARRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they miscarry    ... he / she / it miscarries   
Past simple: miscarried   
Past participle: miscarried   
-ing form: miscarrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be unsuccessful

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

fail; go wrong; miscarry

Context example:

The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "miscarry"):

take it on the chin (undergo failure or defeat)

miss (fail to reach or get to)

overreach (fail by aiming too high or trying too hard)

ball up; blow; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; botch up; bumble; bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; fumble; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; muff; screw up; spoil (make a mess of, destroy or ruin)

strike out (be unsuccessful in an endeavor)

fall (suffer defeat, failure, or ruin)

shipwreck (suffer failure, as in some enterprise)

fall flat; fall through; flop; founder (fail utterly; collapse)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

miscarriage (failure of a plan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffer a miscarriage

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "miscarry" is one way to...):

abort (terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

carry to term (carry out a pregnancy)

Derivation:

miscarriage (a natural loss of the products of conception)

 Context examples 

Women who miscarry early in their pregnancy usually do not need any treatment.

(Miscarriage, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

A woman is more likely to miscarry if she and her partner drink more than two caffeinated beverages a day during the weeks leading up to conception.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

He said, that being then not very well with the court, and pressed by many of his friends, he complied with the proposal; and after employing a hundred men for two years, the work miscarried, the projectors went off, laying the blame entirely upon him, railing at him ever since, and putting others upon the same experiment, with equal assurance of success, as well as equal disappointment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

However, women who took a daily multivitamin before conception and through early pregnancy were less likely to miscarry than women who did not.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)

He said, “the Yahoos were known to hate one another, more than they did any different species of animals; and the reason usually assigned was, the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves. He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable. But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the dissensions of those brutes in his country were owing to the same cause with ours, as I had described them. For if,” said he, “you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other: that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighbourhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle as I had described, with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented. At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighbourhoods, without any visible cause; those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Similarly, women who drank more than two daily caffeinated beverages during the first seven weeks of pregnancy were also more likely to miscarry.

(Couples’ pre-pregnancy caffeine consumption linked to miscarriage risk, NIH)