miscarrying
English edit
Verb edit
miscarrying
- present participle and gerund of miscarry
Noun edit
miscarrying (plural miscarryings)
- Something that has gone astray or been made wrongly.
- 1932, Rudyard Kipling, The Playmate:
- Where, from the trivial flux of Things,
Rise unconceived miscarryings […]
- 2013, Wilfrid Lay, The Child's Unconscious Mind:
- But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be.