miscarrying

English

Verb

miscarrying

1. present participle and gerund 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.