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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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"