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throe
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of THROE
1
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body <collapsed in the throes of agony>
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
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>
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