Synonyms for throes
throes

Princeton's WordNet

1. throesnoun

   violent pangs of suffering

   "death throes"

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1. • Suffering

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1. List of paraphrases for "throes":

   pangs, agonies, horrors

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1. 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.

2. Mark Meckler:

   The biggest takeaway is that the Republican establishment is in its death throes. The only remaining candidates are 100 percent anti-establishment.

3. Kerenga Kua:

   We, as a government, have opted to re-look at the (Papua LNG) agreement because it was signed at a time when we were in the throes, or in the process, of changing the government, it's about weighing it between the nervousness of the investors and the pain and suffering of our own people ... by consultation you will be able to test the threshold of tolerance and then find that balance.

4. President Tayyip Erdogan:

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

5. Philip Sidney:

   Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.