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MISCARRY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: miscarried   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be unsuccessful

Example:

The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably

Synonyms:

fail; go wrong; miscarry

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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)

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