HOW TO PRONOUNCE
throes
/θɹoʊz/
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What does throes mean?
noun
- plural of throe
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IPA pronunciation
/θɹoʊz/
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He stepped out into the hall, and stood at the bottom of the stairs in the throes of doubt.
She could not help respecting her spirit and her desire, even in the throes of sickness, for a tidy bedroom.
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Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—I put it back and looked in.
She entered this refuge, and on the next day she was seized with throes, and she gave birth to a son.
During the time that he was in the throes of his invention, he was very miserable, weighed down with dyspepsia and sick headaches.