THROES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throes mean? 

• THROES (noun)
  The noun THROES has 1 sense:

1. violent pangs of suffering

  Familiarity information: THROES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Violent pangs of suffering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

death throes

Hypernyms ("throes" is a kind of...):

hurt; suffering (feelings of mental or physical pain)

 Context examples 

The day had been too long, the day's effort too intense, and he was deep in the throes of the reaction.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—I put it back and looked in.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For example, all the silver, nickel, and copper in the earth and even in our bodies came from the explosive death throes of stars

(Kepler Catches Early Flash of an Exploding Star, NASA)

The star is a bloated red giant, residing 1,200 light-years away, which has probably shed at least half of its mass into space during its death throes.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They bristled up to him, stiff-legged and challenging, while he, wasting no time on elaborate preliminaries, snapping into action like a steel spring, was at their throats and destroying them before they knew what was happening and while they were yet in the throes of surprise.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the same instant he knew he ought not to accept, and found himself struggling in the throes of indecision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had the "Love-sonnets from the Portuguese" in mind as he wrote, and he wrote under the best conditions for great work, at a climacteric of living, in the throes of his own sweet love-madness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He saw the ring of boys, howling like barbarians as he went down at last, writhing in the throes of nausea, the blood streaming from his nose and the tears from his bruised eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)