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Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.

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  1. n. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
  2. n. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.
  3. n. The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
  4. n. failure of a plan
  5. n. a natural loss of the products of conception
  6. 1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers. 3. The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.
  7. n:100 n. failure of a plan