| NOUN | event | miscarriage, abortion | failure of a plan |
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| act | miscarriage, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth | a natural loss of the products of conception |
| Sounds | mihskeh'rahjh | |
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| Rhymes | acreage ... wreckage: 85 rhymes with ahjh... | |
| Meaning | failure of a plan. | |
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| Synonym | abortion | |
| Broader | failure | An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose |
| Spanish | aborto | |
| Catalan | avortament | |
| Verbs | miscarry | be unsuccessful |
| Meaning | A natural loss of the products of conception. | |
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| Synonyms | spontaneous abortion, stillbirth | |
| Narrower | habitual abortion | repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason) |
| imminent abortion, threatened abortion | The appearance of symptoms that signal the impending loss of the products of conception | |
| incomplete abortion, partial abortion | termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception | |
| Broader | abortion | termination of pregnancy |
| Opposite | live birth | The birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation) |
| Spanish | aborto espontáneo, aborto, mortinatalidad, mortinato | |
| Catalan | avortament | |
| Verbs | miscarry | suffer a miscarriage |
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