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Miscarriage

//ˈmɪs.kæɹ.əd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A failure; a mistake or error. countable, uncountable

    "for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond."

  2. 2
    a natural loss of the products of conception wordnet
  3. 3
    The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    failure of a plan wordnet

Etymology

From mis- + carriage.

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