MISCARRIED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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But this bill has failed in both 2025 and 2026 to pass in Congress.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
The drone bill has a detailed history as it was passed by the Senate in 2024 but failed on the final night of the legislative session when the state House of Representatives never voted on the measure as time expired.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of failed

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Alexei Tsydenov, head of the nearby Republic of Buryatia, said the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.

— COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of died

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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

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