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Definition of THROE

1

a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body <collapsed in the throes of agony>

Synonyms ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart, sting, stitch, throe, tingle, twinge

Related Words discomfort, distress, soreness, tenderness; affliction, agony, anguish, misery, sufferance, suffering, torment, torture; inflammation, sore, swelling; damage, detriment, harm, hurt, injury; backache, bellyache, charley horse, colic, complaint, earache, gripe, headache, stomachache, toothache

Near Antonyms comfort, ease, easiness

2

throes pl  a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective <that third-world country is caught up in the throes of a democratic revolution>

Synonyms battle, fight, fray, scrabble, throes

Related Words effort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, work; drudgery, grind, sweat, toil, travail; combat, conflict, contest, strife, tussle, war, warfare; attempt, endeavor, essay, try