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throes

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. throesnoun

    violent pangs of suffering

    "death throes"

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  1. throes

    Throes refers to intense or violent pain and struggle, especially accompanying birth, death, or great change. It can also signify a condition of agonizing struggle or effort.

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  1. others

  2. other's

  3. reshot

  4. re-shot

  5. tosher

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of throes in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of throes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of throes in a Sentence

  1. Deborah Carr:

    When people first fall in love, where they first feel infatuation, sometimes logic goes out the window, there's lots of data showing that logical thought patterns sometimes get lost in the fray when someone really is very attracted to a person or they're feeling the throes of passion.

  2. Charles Kilpatrick:

    Astronomers have suspected that stars undergo violent eruptions or death throes in the years before we see supernovae, this star's discovery provides some of the most direct evidence ever found that stars experience catastrophic eruptions, which cause them to lose mass before an explosion. If the star was having these eruptions, then it likely expelled its hydrogen several decades before it exploded.

  3. Daniel Munoz:

    What's striking is that they were very careful to select patients who weren't in the active throes of a heart attack and who didn't have an alarming ECG, and both the physicians and the patients still overestimated the risks.

  4. President Tayyip Erdogan:

    These are the last throes of the separatist terror group. These are also the last throes of their extensions.

  5. Leigh Stringer:

    Take them outside the throes of work and have an off-site discussion that shows you care about them as a person. Reaching out is very important.

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