miscarriage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪskaɹɪdʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.ədʒ/, /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.ədʒ/
(Mary–marry–merry merger)Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)
- (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto ii:
- for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
- 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.]
- Synonym: spontaneous abortion
Usage notes[edit]
- The death of an infant during labour or after it has become viable is generally called a stillbirth.
Translations[edit]
natural termination of pregnancy
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Further reading[edit]
miscarriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Miscarriage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)