throe

[throe]

Hard or painful trouble or struggle

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Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

Noun
severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth"

Noun
hard or painful trouble or struggle; "a country in the throes of economic collapse"

n.
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

n.
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

v. i.
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

v. t.
To put in agony.

Throe

Throe , n. [OE. rowe, rave, AS. re'a0 a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. r'be a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. 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.

2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Throe

Throe, v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Throe

Throe, v. t. To put in agony. [R.] Shak.

Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

To put in agony.

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