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Synonyms for throe

Grammar : Noun
Spell : throh
Phonetic Transcription : θroʊ


Définition of throe

Origin :
  • c.1200, throwe "pain, pang of childbirth, agony of death," possibly from Old English þrawan "twist, turn, writhe" (see throw), or altered from Old English þrea (genitive þrawe) "affliction, pang, evil, threat" (related to þrowian "to suffer"), from Proto-Germanic *thrawo (cf. Middle High German dro "threat," German drohen "to threaten"). Modern spelling first recorded 1610s. Related: Throes.
  • noun pain
Example sentences :
  • “You will not throe me off my guard thus,” said Henry, sternly.
  • Extract from : « Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • Every throe of the sick girl seemed to penetrate her own body.
  • Extract from : « Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty » by J. W. de Forest
  • Nothing in his life, no throe of passion or gratification, had been like this.
  • Extract from : « Cytherea » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Something surged in him like the throe of the river where the ship went in.
  • Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
  • She was startled by the throe of pitiful regret that seized her.
  • Extract from : « Shadows of Flames » by Amelie Rives
  • She experienced a throe of such scorn for Loring as sickened her.
  • Extract from : « Shadows of Flames » by Amelie Rives
  • He felt, with a throe of helpless sympathy, that she was undertaking too much.
  • Extract from : « Fennel and Rue » by William Dean Howells
  • A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true despair—rent and heaved my heart.
  • Extract from : « Jane Eyre » by Charlotte Bronte
  • The sea moaned—more than moaned—among the boulders below the ruins, a throe of its tide being timed to regular intervals.
  • Extract from : « The Well-Beloved » by Thomas Hardy
  • Sneak had hastily brought thither his effects, and without a throe of regret abandoned his house for ever to the owls.
  • Extract from : « Wild Western Scenes » by John Beauchamp Jones

Antonyms for throe

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