fausse couche — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abort verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- miscarriage noun The loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive outside the womb.
Senses
fausse couche is used for these senses in English:
- abort (now, rare) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
- abort (obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 17th century.]
- abort (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
- miscarriage (medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]
abort — full definition
- verb To stop an action, plan, or process before it is finished, usually because of a problem.
- verb (medical) To end a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
miscarriage — full definition
- noun The loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive outside the womb.
- noun A failure of something, especially a plan or process, to work as intended — most often used in the fixed phrase "miscarriage of justice."