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# miscarriage

«miscarriage» in Mova's school dictionary: **When a baby growing inside its mother dies and comes out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a miscarriage, miscarriages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) When a baby growing inside its mother dies and comes out too early, long before it could live on its own. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#m3)

### sense 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x2)
- Doctors said nobody was to blame for the miscarriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x3)
- Locking up the wrong man was a miscarriage of justice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x4)
- The newspaper called the trial a terrible miscarriage of justice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/#x5)
- Talk about a miscarriage gently, because it hurts families. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/)
- ["Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it could be born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «miscarriage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miscarriage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.