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Another word for miscarry

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Verb

  1. To bring forth a nonviable fetus prematurely

    See also:

    reproduction

  2. To go wrong, be unsuccessful, or fail to attain a goal

    Idioms:
    See also:

    thrive

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Another word for miscarry

Verb
  1. See also:

    fail

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • They judged, further, that should their attempt by any chance miscarry, the Great Powers, more particularly Russia, protector of the Slav peoples, would not allow them to be crushed, or their present territories to be diminished.

  • The majority of severely abnormal babies miscarry by the end of the second six months.

  • embryonic clones fail to implant, miscarry later in pregnancy or are born with severe birth defects.

  • miscarry a future pregnancy.

  • miscarry when all things are prosperous and flow in upon them, when they have lived in plenty.

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