miscarrying

miscarrying

English

Verb

miscarrying

1. present participle of miscarry

Noun

miscarrying (plural miscarryings)

1. 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.