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throes
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Princeton's WordNet
throesnoun
violent pangs of suffering
"death throes"
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Throes refers to intense or violent pain and struggle, especially accompanying birth, death, or great change. It can also signify a condition of agonizing struggle or effort.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of throes in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of throes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of throes in a Sentence
When people first fall in love, where they first feel infatuation, sometimes logic goes out the window, there's lots of data showing that logical thought patterns sometimes get lost in the fray when someone really is very attracted to a person or they're feeling the throes of passion.
Some of the best truths for which to live were realized in the throes of death.
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.
maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.
Astronomers have suspected that stars undergo violent eruptions or death throes in the years before we see supernovae, this star's discovery provides some of the most direct evidence ever found that stars experience catastrophic eruptions, which cause them to lose mass before an explosion. If the star was having these eruptions, then it likely expelled its hydrogen several decades before it exploded.
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Translations for throes
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- ألم عظيمArabic
- agoníaSpanish
- affresFrench
- pergolakanIndonesian
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