English > miscarry: 2 senses > verb 1, socialMeaning | Be unsuccessful. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
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Synonyms | fail, go wrong |
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Narrower | botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up | make a mess of, destroy or ruin |
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fall | Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin |
fall through, fall flat, founder, flop | fail utterly |
miss | fail to reach or get to |
overreach | fail by aiming too high or trying too hard |
shipwreck | Suffer failure, as in some enterprise |
strike out | Be unsuccessful in an endeavor / endeavor |
take it on the chin | Undergo failure or defeat / defeat |
Opposite | succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods | attain success or reach a desired goal / goal |
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Spanish | fallar, fracasar, zozobrar |
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Catalan | equivocar-se, fallar, fracassar |
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Nouns | miscarriage | failure of a plan |
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