miscarriage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
miscarriage
- (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]
- (termination of pregnancy) spontaneous abortion
- French: fausse couche
- German: Fehlgeburt
- Italian: aborto
- Portuguese: aborto espontâneo
- Russian: вы́кидыш
- Spanish: aborto espontáneo, aborto natural
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