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MISCARRIAGE

Pronunciation (US):

• MISCARRIAGE (noun)
The noun MISCARRIAGE has 2 senses:

1. failure of a plan
2. a natural loss of the products of conception

Familiarity information: MISCARRIAGE used as a noun is rare.

• MISCARRIAGE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Failure of a plan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

miscarriage; abortion

Hypernyms ("miscarriage" is a kind of...):

failure (an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A natural loss of the products of conception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

spontaneous abortion; stillbirth; miscarriage

Hypernyms ("miscarriage" is a kind of...):

abortion (termination of pregnancy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miscarriage"):

habitual abortion (repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason))

imminent abortion; threatened abortion (the appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception)

incomplete abortion; partial abortion (termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception)

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(English proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Corsican proverb)

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