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THROES
throes
(noun) violent pangs of suffering; “death throes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
throes
plural of throe
Anagrams
• Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, tosher
Source: Wiktionary
THROE
Throe, n. Etym: [OE. , , AS. a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. 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.
Definition: To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
Throe, v. t.
Definition: To put in agony. [R.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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