miscarry

1. 1.

   be unsuccessful

   “Where do today's public schools fail?”

   “The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably”

   Synonymsfailgo wrong

   Narrowertake it on the chinmissoverreachbotchstrike outfallshipwreckfall through
2. 2.

   suffer a miscarriage

   Antonymscarry to term

   Broaderabort

Other forms of miscarry

past tense or participle

miscarried

present participle

miscarrying·

third person

miscarries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miscarry

What does miscarry mean?

miscarry means "be unsuccessful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in miscarry?

miscarry has 3 syllables: mi-scar-ry. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for miscarry?

Close synonyms include fail, go wrong. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of miscarry?

The recorded antonyms are carry to term.

Is miscarry a common word?

miscarry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.