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miscarriages

miscarriages is the plural of miscarriage.

Meaning of miscarriage

Noun

miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)

  1. (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error.
    • for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
    • Susan Billig had suffered four miscarriages before giving birth to her firstborn daughter, Amy[…] .2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2026

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Questions about miscarriages

What is miscarriages the plural of?
Miscarriages is the plural of miscarriage.

Words near miscarriages in the dictionary

  1. miscaptioning
  2. miscaptions
  3. miscare
  4. miscarriage
  5. miscarriage of justice
  6. miscarriages
  7. miscarriages of justice
  8. miscarried
  9. miscarries
  10. miscarry
  11. miscarrying

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