miscarry
(verb) suffer a miscarriage
fail, go wrong, miscarry
(verb) be unsuccessful; “Where do today’s public schools fail?”; “The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
miscarry (third-person singular simple present miscarries, present participle miscarrying, simple past and past participle miscarried)
(obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm. [14th-18th c.]
(now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong. [from 14th c.]
To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so. [from 16th c.]
To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.). [from 16th c.]
Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient. [from 16th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Mis*car"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Miscarried; p. pr. & vb. n. Miscarrying.]
1. To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak.
2. To bring forth young before the proper time.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 December 2024
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
