Definitions for throe

throe throe

Spelling: [throh]
IPA: /θroʊ/

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).

Definitions for throe

noun

  1. a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
  2. a sharp attack of emotion.
  3. throes. any violent convulsion or struggle: the agony of death. the pains of childbirth.

Origin of throe

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)

Examples for throe

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.

Word Value for throe
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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