miscarry
- v be unsuccessful
- v suffer a miscarriage
- As the selected Plays demonstrate, Kleist was the first great absurdist, obsessed with justice and the black-comic ways in which it can miscarry.
- Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called it all off.
- As many as half of fertilized eggs naturally miscarry, usually before the prospective mother even knows she was pregnant.