Miscarry

Definition: Miscarry

Miscarry

Verb

1. Be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably".

2. Suffer a miscarriage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "miscarry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Miscarry \Mis*car"ry\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Miscarried; present participle verb or noun Miscarrying.]. (references)

Synonyms: Miscarry

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Crosswords: Miscarry

It will go far stamped with the Lincoln stamp : American greatness cannot miscarry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "miscarry": cause to miscarry. Additional references.

Albanian

nuk mbërrij, dështoj (abort, backfire, fail, fall down, fall short, fall short of, fall through, flop, go down the drain, go phut, lose, lose out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), ‏خفق يفشل (bust, flunk), ‏جهض (abort, naught, outflank), ‏إجهاض (miscarriage, termination), ‏أضاع (balk, dawdle, lose, mislay, slattern, stray). (various references)

Bulgarian 

не успявам (fail), не сполучвам (fail, fall down), абортирам (abort), помятам (abort, cast, drop, slink, slip), изгубвам се (disappear, evanesce, stray). (various references)

Chinese 

失败 (Abortive, Defeat, defeatist, Fail, Failed, Failing, failure, Miscarried, Miscarrying). (various references)

Czech

ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, shipwreck, wreck), selhat (abort, backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, fizzle out, give out, go wrong, lapse, misfire), potratit (abort). (various references)

Dutch

mislukken (abort, be bankrupt, come to nothing, decline, fail, go broke, recede). (various references)

Esperanto

aborti (abort). (various references)

Faeroese

miseydnast (abort, fail). (various references)

Farsi 

نتیجه ندادن , عقیم ماندن (Abort), صدمه دیدن , اشتباه کردن (Blunder, Fumble, Goof, Miscue, Mistake, Saturate, Slip), بچه انداختن (Abort), بجاءی نرسیدن . (various references)

French

avorter. (various references)

Frisian

mislearje (abort, fail), feile (abort, fail), fale (abort, fail). (various references)

German

abortieren (abort). (various references)

Greek 

αποβάλλω (abort, cast off, discard, elide, expel, expel from, repudiate, send down, send out 1, shed). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתעות (stray), ל�"חטיא את �"מטר�" (overshoot), ל�"כשל (come to grief, dud, fail, fall, fall over, fall through, fizzle out, founder, miss fire). (various references)

Hungarian

megszakít (abort, break off, cut off, intermit, interrupt, intersect, to break off, to cut off, to intermit), kudarcot vall (lose out, to bring one's pigs to a pretty market, to bring one's pigs to the wrong market, to flop, to go flop, to lose out), elvetél (abort, have a miscarriage, slunk, to abort, to slink), elvész (disappear, he who hesitates is lost, to go by the board, to go to waste, to run to waste), célt téveszt (Miss, miss the point, to lose the fang, to miss aim, to miss the mark, wide off the mark), abortál (abort). (various references)

Icelandic

missa fóstur (abort). (various references)

Indonesian

tak berhasil, hilang (disappear), gugur (abort, deciduousis, drop out, fall). (various references)

Italian

abortire (abort, drift, fail). (various references)

Korean 

� 산하십시�". (various references)

Malay

gagal (abort, fail). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrk roish y traa, tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, fling, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, toss up, toss up coin, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Papiamen

frakasá (abort, fail), faya (abort, fail). (various references)

Pig Latin

iscarrymay.(various references)

Portuguese

abortar (abort, slip). (various references)

Romanian

suferi un eşec (come a cropper, flop, strand), nu reuşi (abort, fail, fall, fall short of, fall through, flop, Miss, slip up), nu ajunge la destinaţie, eşua (abort, beach, break down, come down, drop through, fail, fall, founder, ground, pile up, run aground, run ashore, strand), avorta (abort, slink). (various references)

Russian 

выкидывать;давать осечку, не доходить по адресу, потерпеть неудачу (abort, come a cropper, come to grief, draw a blank, fall short of, fall through, fizzle out, go flop, go phut, go to the wall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

promašiti (miss), podbaciti (fail, let down), pobaciti (abort). (various references)

Spanish

malparir, zozobrar (capsize, fail, heel over, keel over), salir mal (go amiss, go awry, go wrong), frustrarse (fail), fracasar (abort, break down, bust, come to grief, come unstuck, crush, fail, fall apart, fall down, fall through, founder, go awry, go phut, go under, pip), extraviarse (aberrate, err, get lost, go astray, go wrong, lose oneself, straggle, stray, stray off, wander), abortar (abort, cause to miscarry). (various references)

Swedish

misslyckas (abort, bomb, crack, fail, fails, failure, fall flat, fall through, lose, Miss), klicka (abort, click, fail, misfire), fallera (be short of, lack), förkomma (get lost). (various references)

Turkish

ters gitmek (back fire, backfire, go awry, go wrong, not to go well), suya düşmek (collapse, come to grief, come to naught, come to nought, come unstuck, fail, fall through, fizzle, fizzle out, flop, go by the board, go phut, go to pot, peter out), düşük yapmak (abort), başaramamak (fail, lose out), çocuk düşürmek (abort). (various references)

Ukrainian

не доходити за адресою, мати викидень, зазнавати невдачі. (various references)

Welsh

erthylu (abort). (various references)

Zulu

-ehluleka (abort, fail). (various references)

abortit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "miscarry": miscarrying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Miscarry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macarr, misary, miscare, moscaryi, muscarl. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: myricas.

-2 letters: cymars, myrica, racism, scarry.

-3 letters: amirs, arris, carrs, carry, crams, cymar, cymas, mairs, marcs, marry, micas, micra, scary, scram, scrim, simar, sirra, yirrs.

-4 letters: aims, airs, airy, amir, amis, arcs, arms, army, asci, cams, carr, cars, cays, cram, cris, cyma, macs, mair, marc, mars, mays, mica, mirs, miry, racy, rami, rams, rays.

+3 letters: miscarrying, mycorrhizas.

+4 letters: cryptarithms, cryptomerias, microcrystal.

+5 letters: microcrystals, scalariformly.