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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.

News & Articles

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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

Quotes

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• Donald Rumsfeld in USA Today
  If you look up 'last throes,' it can mean a violent last throe,Rumsfeld said on ABC's This Week.
• Norman Mailer in Chicago Tribune
  And of 1968, Mailer writes, "The country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave."