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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
throes /θrəʊz/

▶plural noun intense or violent pain and struggle: he convulsed in his death throes.

– phrases
in the throes of struggling in the midst of.

– origin ME throwe (sing.); perh. rel. to OE thrēa, thrawu ‘calamity’, influenced by thrōwian ‘suffer’.

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