Throe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 65 anagrams from letters in throe (ehort).
1150-1200; Middle English throwe, alteration of thrawe (-o- from Old English thrōwian to suffer, be in pain), Old English thrawu; cognate with Old Norse thrā (in līkthrā leprosy)
The sea moaned—more than moaned—among the boulders below the ruins, a throe of its tide being timed to regular intervals.
A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true despair—rent and heaved my heart.
Every throe of the sick girl seemed to penetrate her own body.
She experienced a throe of such scorn for Loring as sickened her.
Something surged in him like the throe of the river where the ship went in.
She was startled by the throe of pitiful regret that seized her.
Sneak had hastily brought thither his effects, and without a throe of regret abandoned his house for ever to the owls.
“You will not throe me off my guard thus,” said Henry, sternly.
Nothing in his life, no throe of passion or gratification, had been like this.
He felt, with a throe of helpless sympathy, that she was undertaking too much.
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