Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
- 2noun
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
- 3intransitive verb
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
- 4transitive verb
To put in agony.
- 5noun
severe spasm of pain
"the throes of dying"
"the throes of childbirth"
- 6noun
hard or painful trouble or struggle
"a country in the throes of economic collapse"
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