throe

throe is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
2. noun. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
3. intransitive verb. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
4. transitive verb. To put in agony.
5. noun. severe spasm of pain

   "the throes of dying"

   "the throes of childbirth"

6. noun. hard or painful trouble or struggle

   "a country in the throes of economic collapse"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in throe:

other, theor, thore, toher

Common word forms

throed, throes, throeing

Words from these letters

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