Miscarriage

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmɪskaɹɪdÊ’/
• US IPA: /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.É™dÊ’/, /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.É™dÊ’/

Origin

From - + carriage.

Full definition of miscarriage

Noun

1. (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.
2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. from 17th c.

Synonyms

• termination of pregnancy: spontaneous abortion