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- [n] severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth"
- [n] hard or painful trouble or struggle; "a country in the throes of economic collapse"
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| | See Also: | | agony, distress, excruciation, suffering |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Throe\, n. [OE. [thorn]rowe, [thorn]rawe, AS.
[thorn]re['a] a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps
influenced by Icel. [thorn]r[=a] a throe, a pang, a longing;
cf. AS. [thorn]reowian to suffer.]
1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially,
one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. --Milton.
2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
\Throe\, v. i.
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
\Throe\, v. t.
To put in agony. [R.] --Shak.
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