throe /ˈθro/
 產痛,掙扎,痛苦,劇痛
 throe /ˈθro/ 名詞
 Throe n.
 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
    Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.   --Milton.
 2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
 Throe, v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
 Throe, v. t. To put in agony. [R.]
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 throe
      n 1: severe spasm of pain; "the throes of dying"; "the throes of
           childbirth"
      2: hard or painful trouble or struggle; "a country in the
         throes of economic collapse"