Usually means: Pregnancy loss before twenty weeks.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word miscarries:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. miscarries: Merriam-Webster
  2. miscarries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. miscarries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. miscarries: Vocabulary.com
  5. miscarries: Wordnik
  6. miscarries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. miscarries: Wiktionary
  8. miscarries: Dictionary.com
  9. miscarries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. miscarries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miscarries: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. miscarries: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. miscarries: Medical dictionary

(Note: See miscarry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (miscarry)

verb:  (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
verb:  (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
verb:  To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus.
verb:  To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
verb:  Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.
▸ Also see miscarry


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