throe

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To put in agony.
  • To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Origin

  • From Middle English throwe, perhaps from Old English þrēa, þrōwian. The modern spelling displaced the original in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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