throe
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9.9
- noun
- /θroʊ/
- I can assure you, my son is very engaging when he's not in the throes of jet lag.
- death throes
- throes of war
- throes of a crisis
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Watch on YouTubeAlso, don't turn a lady down in the throes of passion.
- Also, don't turn a lady down in the throes of passion.
- But I fear that people won't understand how dark a brain injury is when you're in the throes of it.
- Easy to rationalize and hard to truly understand when you're in the throes of the intoxication phase of an early romantic relationship.
- Where one of the actresses in the throes of ecstasy moaned BLM.
- And he also had a woman from Alabama who was in the throes of doing IVF, and then she had to stop.
- You'd have to start trying to put things together again, something I think might be in the throes of starting as it happens.
- At those moments when the beautiful things are in the throes of failing me, that's when I think about the people who want me to fail.
- You know, we're all a lot of us, especially from the South, are raised in the throes of religion while not ever challenging that religion.
Examples
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From late 1945 on, France was in the throes of a protracted constitutional crisis.
Academic text (1998) -
His body jerks around as if caught in the throes of an epileptic seizure.
Fiction book (1991) -
Even in the throes of a busy general practice, we must be careful.
Academic text (2015) -
Case study of one institution in the throes of that change process.
Academic text (1991) -
At home too, their communities were in the throes of drastic change.
Academic text (2002) -
Iran, after all, is a country in the throes of monumental internal transformation.
Academic text (2010) -
The Jordanians, in the throes of a democratic revival, were as cautious as ever.
Academic text (1993) -
Up he went, soaked in blood and in the throes of death, stretching his arms out towards her even as he dangled in the air beside the wall of the tomb.
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One had died in surgery, inadequately sedated and restrained, thrashing and howling in throes that still haunted Lucinda.
Fiction book (2002) -
The country has been in the throes of a recession that has caused widespread unemployment.
Synonyms
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9.1
Severe pain and suffering during a final or very difficult time
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Throe comes from an old word meaning 'to twist' or 'to writhe', so picture a body or place twisting in sudden pain. That's why a throe is a very strong pain or a hard, painful struggle during a big change.