THROE, noun Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony. It is particularly applied to the anguish of travail in child-birth. My throes came thicker, and my cries increas'd. THROE, verb intransitive To agonize; to struggle in extreme pain. THROE, verb transitive To put in agony.
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