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miscarry
verb as in fail to attain goal
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
Example Sentences
Rodriguez went on to miscarry while in custody, according to a lawsuit she filed against the federal government.
But after a bleed early on, a test showed Rhiannon had miscarried at eight weeks.
At her 10-week appointment, she learned that her child had triploidy, a genetic condition where a fetus has three sets of chromosomes instead of two, and would miscarry late-term or die at birth.
As she was miscarrying and bleeding profusely, she said physicians didn’t explain that she had options for care.
Book banning is several orders of magnitude less urgent than sending a miscarrying patient home without care, obviously.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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