throe
IPA: θrˈoʊ
noun
- A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.
- (usually in the plural) The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.
- Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) A hard struggle, especially one associated with the beginning or finishing of a task.
- Synonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”)
verb
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.
- (intransitive) To feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
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Examples of "throe" in Sentences
- He was in the throes of disease.
- Kondratyev was in the final throes of syphilis.
- In 1894, Hamilton was in the throes of expanding.
- Meanwhile, Paris was in the throes of revolution.
- India is in the throes of the new global economy.
- This is a metropolis in the throes of modernization.
- In theory capitalism was in its death throes, not the nation.
- Any decision made in the throes of emotion is likely to be wise.
- In 1924, Chile was in the throes of an economic and political crisis.
- Ilocos underwent the throes of these practices to be what it is today.
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