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# miscarriage

noun (a miscarriage, miscarriages)

«miscarriage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. When a baby growing inside its mother dies and comes out too early, long before it could live on its own. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#m1)
2. (formal) A miscarriage of justice is when a court gets it wrong and punishes someone who did nothing wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#m2)
3. (formal, old) A failure of a plan, or a letter or parcel going to the wrong place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#m3)

### In the lessons

A sad, gentle word used in families, health lessons and stories; people speak it softly and kindly. In history and news, «a miscarriage of justice» tells the reader an innocent person was wrongly blamed. Phrases: have a miscarriage, a miscarriage of justice.

### Examples

- Mum had a miscarriage before my little brother was born. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x1)
- She was very sad after the miscarriage, so we made her a card. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x2)
- Doctors said nobody was to blame for the miscarriage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x3)
- Locking up the wrong man was a miscarriage of justice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x4)
- The newspaper called the trial a terrible miscarriage of justice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x5)
- Talk about a miscarriage gently, because it hurts families. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x6)

### Note

Countable noun: a miscarriage, two miscarriages. Verb form: miscarry (miscarried). Not the same as «carriage» (a coach or train car). A sensitive topic: speak kindly and do not joke about it. Not a maths word.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «miscarriage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«miscarriage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/miscarriage.html) on Mova free.