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  • n  severe spasm of pain
    the throes of dying
    the throes of childbirth
  • n  hard or painful trouble or struggle
    a country in the throes of economic collapse

  • It's apt that the Cardiac Pack is led by My Life, for its writer-director is Bruce Joel Rubin, screenwriter for the postmortem love story Ghost and the death-throe fantasy Jacob's .
  • The four votes taken (throe or four members answered "present" on each ballot) were as follows: First Second Third Fourth .
  • Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy.
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  • Odd Plurals That Can Throw You Into Throes Of Misery
    I couldn't finish my paper because my family is in the throes of moving,a student told me last week. Having been in the throes of moving several times myself — the boxes, the packing, the icky stuff under the couch — I gave the kid a break.
    March 6, 2014 - Hartford Courant

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