Throe

Definitions: Throe

Throe

Noun

1. Severe spasm of pain: "the throes of dying"; "the throes of childbirth".

2. Hard or painful trouble or struggle: "a country in the throes of economic collapse".

Date "throe" was first used: 12th century "throwe". (references)

Synonym: Throe

Synonym: Agony. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agitation	Spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion.
Physical Pain	Spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb. (agitation); pang; colic; kink.
Revolution	Jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
Violence	Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Throe

English words defined with "throe": Death throe. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	In the Throe of Wonder: Intimations of the Sacred in a Post-Modern World (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The war of the street was suddenly transfigured by some indescribable interior throe of the soul, before the eye of his mind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Throe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Throe" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "throe": Death throe. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "throe": death-throe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "throe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		grahmat e vdekjes, grahmë (agony, death pangs, death rattle, death throes, whiff), dhimbje (ache, agony, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, grip, heartache, misery, pain, sorrow, sympathy). (various references)

Arabic		‏مخاض, ‏نوبة إنفعال, ‏نوبة ألم, ‏سكرات الموت (dying), ‏آلام المخاض (labour pains). (various references)

Bulgarian		спазъм (cramp, pang), конвулсия (convulsion, jerk), гърч, мъки (martyrdom, pangs), болки, предсмъртна борба. (various references)

Farsi		گیرودار, زایمان (Childbirth, Litter, Parturition), رنج (Agony, Bale, Discomfort, Labor, Pain, Toil, Trial, Tribulation). (various references)

French		parturition, douleur de l'accouchement, agonie (death throes). (various references)

German		Agonie (agony, death pangs, death throes, throes, throes of death). (various references)

Greek		άλγοσ, αγωνία (agony, anguish, distress, suspense), οδύνη (affliction, anguish, grief, pang). (various references)

Hebrew		עוית (convulsion, spasm, tic, twitch). (various references)

Hungarian		fájdalom (ache, angina, angina pectoris, distress, dolor, dolour, ease from pain, gip, gippo, gout, grief, pain, pang, soreness, suffering, throes). (various references)

Italian		fitta (sharp pain, stab, stitch, twinge). (various references)

Manx		greim baaish (death throe). (various references)

Pig Latin		oethray

Portuguese		dor violenta, agonia (affliction, agony, death throes, death-struggle, ordeal, trial). (various references)

Russian		мука (anguish, excruciation, flour, martyrdom, meal, torment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		agonija (agony, death-struggle, torment, travail), žestok bol. (various references)

Spanish		dolor agudo (bite), agonía (agony, agony of death, anguish, throes). (various references)

Swedish		häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, impetuous, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, vehement, violent, virulent, volcanic). (various references)

Turkish		sancı (ache, colic, gripes, pain, pang, stitch, travail, twinge), sızı (ache, discomfort, hurt, pain, pang, prick, sting), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), ağrı (ache, affliction, discomfort, pain, smart, soreness, spasm). (various references)

Ukranian		страждати (be tormented, smart, suffer), спазми, агонія (agony, death-struggle), агонізувати (agonize). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "throe": throes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Throe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athro, hrvoje, taroe, theor, thiro, Thiroux, thobe, thoe, thoed, thora, thore, thoren, thorey, thork, thr, thra, thrae, thre, threee, threep, threo, thria, thrime, throbe, throd, throel, throg, throid, throk, throm, thrope, thros, throse, throt, throte, throu, thrue, thruy, Thyre, trhe, troe, trofe. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: other.
	Words within the letters "e-h-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: hero, hoer, rote, thro, tore.
	-2 letters: eth, her, het, hoe, hot, ore, ort, ret, rho, roe, rot, the, tho, toe, tor.
	-3 letters: eh, er, et, he, ho, oe, oh, or, re, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: bother, dehort, exhort, hector, hereto, heriot, hetero, hooter, hornet, horste, hotter, mother, nother, others, pother, reshot, rhetor, rochet, rotche, theory, thorpe, throes, throne, throve, tocher, tother, troche, zeroth.
	+2 letters: another, bethorn, betroth, botcher, bothers, brothel, brother, cheroot, chortle, couther, crochet, dehorts, earshot, exhorts, frothed, hectors, helotry, heriots, heritor, heteros, hoister, holster, hooters, hootier, hornets, horrent, horstes, hostler, loather, mothers, mothery, mothier, mouther, norther, notcher, outhear, overhot, oxheart, phorate, potherb, pothers, prophet, rathole, reshoot, retouch, rhetors, rochets, rotches, sheroot, shooter, shorted, shorten, shorter, shortie, shouter, smother, soother, souther, strophe, teraohm, theorbo, theorem, thereof, thereon, thereto, thermos, theroid, thorite, thorned, thorpes, throned, thrones, thrower, tochers, torched, torches, toucher, tougher, trochee, troches, trothed, whereto, whortle, worthed.
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