Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A severe pang or spasm of pain, as in childbirth. See Synonyms at pain.
- n. A condition of agonizing struggle or trouble: a country in the throes of economic collapse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A violent pang; hence, pain; anguish; suffering; agony: particularly applied to the anguish of travail in childbirth or parturition.
- n. Effort.
- To agonize; struggle in extreme pain; be in agony.
- To pain; put in agony.
- n. See throw.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
- n. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
- v. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
- v. rare To put in agony.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hard or painful trouble or struggle
- n. severe spasm of pain
Etymologies
- From Middle English throwe, perhaps from Old English þrēa, thrawu ("threat"). This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English throwe, perhaps alteration of thrawe, from Old English thrawu, genitive of thrēah, pain, affliction. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A public licking for the throe was the least they could expect.”
“Something was happening in the mind of the poet, the "funeral in my brain", the volcanic "throe".”
“And he felt the stir in him, like a throe of yearning pain, of the desire to paint these visions that flashed unsummoned on the mirror of his mind.”
“And then, in the midst of the bitterest throe, came a great visioning.”
“They say that in his death-throe he arose and facing some great, ghostly choir raised his last baton, while all around the massive silence rang with the last mist-music of his dying ears.”
“But he want be able to throe her under a bus, to the back of the bus, to the front of the bus, or in front of the bus.”
“You probably want to throe out all the votes that werent for Hillary in michigan right? so much for the champion of the voters, this is just greed mary cleveland, ohio”
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
“You throe one thing than another you end up with a third lose thing that is different that the first two things once the right time passes.”
“With the above typed, I think BO in his final obamacare death throe this week will try and resell the same bag of junk, in incremental form, with alot of zesty new age words in a way that attempts to convince congress that this is doable.”
Daily Kos Comments on Obama Dropping the Public Option - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
“And then a throe overswept her and she brought her knees up toward her belly and her eyes squeezed shut.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘throe’.
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important
shamanism, consol, sanguine, iffy, affinity, concatenation, honed, innumberable, aiden, inexorable, vet, suss and 176 more...
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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NTDW2
yawp, smug, whit, amidships, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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dickinsonian
psalteries, enamoring, estates, whim, calyx, hoisted, nought, pentateuchal, retina, obviated, revelation, stalactite and 193 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Citizens: Schama
Words from this awesome book
paragon, disconcerted, ardor, apocryphal, self-effacing, inextricably, reprisal, quandary, stoicism, insuperable, preclude, intercession and 49 more...
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difficult-list46
tantrum, tarry, tatty, tawdry, tedium, temerity, temperament, temperate, temporal, temporize, tenacious, tenacity and 25 more...
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oh-eee-oh-eee-oh
words with oe that aren't:
plurals (tomatoes)
tenses (vetoed)
or compound latin thingies (electroencephalograph)amoeba, subpoena, throe, cooee, phoebe, goethe, oeuvre, pekoe, loess, sloe, canoe, phooey and 20 more...
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