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. Charles Kilpatrick:

   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.

2. 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.

3. Deborah Carr:

   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.

4. Skid Row:

   Though many people may not realize it, we are in the throes of a mental health state of emergency. though many times this is understandable from a legal and public safety standpoint.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   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.