miscarriage
/mɪsˈkarɪdʒ
/ /ˈmɪskarɪdʒ /noun
1The spontaneous or unplanned expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive independently: his wife had a miscarriage [mass noun]: some pregnancies result in miscarriage...
- Some investigators have found statistical associations between induced abortion and subsequent miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
- Relatively new is the medical approach to spontaneous miscarriages.
- Pregnant women are usually warned to avoid all contact with cats and cat feces to avoid exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, a microbe that can cause miscarriages or damage to fetuses.
Synonyms
spontaneous abortion, stillbirth
2An unsuccessful outcome of something planned: the miscarriage of the project
Synonyms
failure, foundering, ruin, ruination, collapse, breakdown, thwarting, frustration, undoing, reversal, setback, unsuccessfulness, aborting, non-fulfilment, misfiring, mismanagement, perversion
