throe

1. n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Source: opted

2. n. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. Source: opted

3. v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize. Source: opted

4. v. t. To put in agony. Source: opted

5. n. severe spasm of pain Source: wordnet

6. n. hard or painful trouble or struggle Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

8. n. severe spasm of pain n. hard or painful trouble or struggle Source: ecdict

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