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Throe logo #10101) Ache 2) Pang 3) Spasm
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Throe logo #10101) Agony 2) Difficult struggle 3) Distressed feeling 4) Excruciation 5) Pain spasm 6) Painful fit 7) Painful sensation 8) Painful struggle 9) Pang 10) Pang of pain 11) Paroxysm 12) Severe pain spasm 13) Severe pang 14) Severe spasm 15) Severe spasm of pain 16) Sharp attack of pain 17) Sharp spasm 18) Singular spasm
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  1. severe spasm of pain
  2. hard or painful trouble or struggle

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Throe logo #21002• (v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize. • (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. • (n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. • (v. t.) To put in agony.
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throe logo #209731. 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. ... Origin: OE. Rowe, rave, AS. Rea a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. Ra a throe, a pang, ...
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Throe logo #20972Throe intransitive verb To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
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Throe logo #20972Throe noun [ Middle English þrowe , þrawe , Anglo-Saxon þreá a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icelandic þrā a throe, a pang, a longing; confer Anglo-Saxon þreowian to suffer.] 1. Extreme pain; v...
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Throe logo #20972Throe transitive verb To put in agony. [ R.] Shak.
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throe logo #20400[n] - hard or painful trouble or struggle 2. [n] - severe spasm of pain
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throe logo #21009throe, throes 1. A violent spasm or pang; paroxysm. 2. A sharp attack of emotion. 3. Any violent convulsion or struggle; such as, a condition of agonizing struggle or trouble: a country in the throes of economic collapse. The agony of death, or the pains of childbirth. 4. Etymology: from Middle English throwe, perhaps an alteration of thrawe, fr...
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