Other forms: miscarried, miscarries, miscarrying
To miscarry is to lose a pregnancy, or for a plan to go wrong. She miscarried, the plan miscarried, miscarry early.
Losing a pregnancy is common — something like one in five known pregnancies — and it is almost never caused by anything the person did. The noun is miscarriage. The second sense survives mainly in miscarriage of justice, which is a wrongful conviction.
1verbmiscarryTo lose a pregnancy.
“She miscarried early in her first pregnancy and grieved for months.”
2verbplanFor a plan to go wrong.
“The plot miscarried when one of the conspirators told the police.”
miscarry is a going wrong.
Middle English miscarien is mis-, wrongly, plus carry. The medical sense grew from the general one of going wrong.
Middle English
miscarien
English, today
miscarry
From Middle English miscarien. by surface analysis, en + mis + carry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire