miscarried

verb

past tense of miscarry
as in failed
to go wrong the scheme to save the stranded dolphins miscarried, and all were lost

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Recent Examples of miscarried Abdel Gelil miscarried at the same point in a previous pregnancy. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 The Cincinnati Bengals player, 31, and his wife announced in a joint Instagram post on Friday, July 17, that their baby, a boy, miscarried at 16 weeks. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026 Two years later, in May 2025, Andrews recorded an emotional episode on the same day her surrogate miscarried. — Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 15 July 2026 Goodman miscarried multiple times, and lost at least one child in infancy. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Gutierrez had been held hostage alongside two of his nieces, one of whom was three months pregnant and subsequently miscarried. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026 Cillíní were reserved for babies who were stillborn, miscarried, or died at birth without having been baptized. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026 So his wife miscarried five more times before Nile and died of ovarian cancer. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 There were initial claims that the 15-year-old girl miscarried, police told WSYX, but it was later revealed the baby was born alive and died for unknown reasons. — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscarried
  1. failed
  2. died
  3. misfired
  4. stalled
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  • Several lawmakers tried to crack down on immigration during the 2026 legislative session, but all but one bill failed to cross the finish line.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Stevenson set about interviewing locals about why the mine had failed.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of failed
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  • In the town of Chhatak, also in the Sylhet region, the daughter of 30-year-old carpenter Humayun Rashid died unvaccinated in June aged nine months.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Four people died and dozens more were injured after a fire broke out at a Canadian military base in Alberta on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday afternoon.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of died
Verb
  • The Huskers failed to convert a fourth-and-4 in that spot as Colandrea misfired on a low-percentage deep throw.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Burrow completed three straight passes and moved Cincinnati to the Jaguars 21, but then misfired on three straight passes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of misfired
Verb
  • No consensus on what counts as a weapon International efforts to negotiate a new framework banning all weapons in space have stalled because there is no agreement on what counts as a space weapon, among other things, according to Samson.
    — Stephanie Liechtenstein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • When Harvey stalled over the Houston area, the storm kept drawing moisture from the warm waters of the Gulf.
    — Zachary Handlos, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of stalled

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“Miscarried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscarried. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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