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n. A severe pang or spasm of pain, as in childbirth. See Synonyms at pain.

n. A condition of agonizing struggle or trouble: a country in the throes of economic collapse.

n. A pang, spasm.

n. A hard struggle.

v. To put in agony.

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.

verb-intransitive. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

v. To put in agony.

n. A violent pang; hence, pain; anguish; suffering; agony: particularly applied to the anguish of travail in childbirth or parturition.

n. Effort.

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

To pain; put in agony.

n. See throw.

n. hard or painful trouble or struggle

n. severe spasm of pain

"A public licking for the throe was the least they could expect."

distress    agony    suffering    excruciation   

in the throes of   

anguish    agony    frow    agonize    spasm    pain   

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