Thesaurus: throe

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1. n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
2. n. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
3. v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
4. v. t. To put in agony.
5. n. severe spasm of pain
6. n. hard or painful trouble or struggle
7. 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. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize. To put in agony. [R.] Shak.
8. n. severe spasm of pain n. hard or painful trouble or struggle