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| Main Entry: |
throe
 [throh] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain |
| Synonyms: | ache, agony, anguish, disorder, pang, spasm, struggle, turmoil |
| Main Entry: | agony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suffering, pain |
| Synonyms: | affliction, anguish, distress, dolor, misery, pangs, passion, throes, torment, torture, woe |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, peace, success |
| Main Entry: | anguish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe upset or pain |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, distress, dole, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, hurting, misery, pang, rue, sorrow, suffering, throe, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, contentment, happiness, joy, joyfulness, solace |
Example Sentences
- But as it turns out, it was the husband, in the throes of a divorce.
- But only a few years earlier he was in the throes of an inflammatory bowel disease known as ulcerative colitis.
- Nearly everyone in the throes of a bad cold has temporarily been unable to smell a thing.
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden dysfunction or disorder |
| Synonyms: | access, ailment, bout, breakdown, convulsion, disease, failure, fit, illness, paroxysm, relapse, seizure, spasm, spell, stroke, throe |
| Antonyms: | health |
| Main Entry: | convulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | muscle spasm |
| Synonyms: | algospasm, attack, contortion, contraction, cramp, epilepsy, fit, paroxysm, seizure, throe, tremor |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, agony |
| Synonyms: | ache, affliction, anguish, anxiety, bad news, blues, care, concern, cross, dejection, desolation, disappointment, discomfort, disquietude, dolor, embarrassment, grief, headache, heartache, heartbreak, irritation, malaise, misery, mortification, ordeal, pang, perplexity, sadness, shame, sorrow, stew, suffering, throe, torment, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, twinge, unconsolability, unhappiness, vexation, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | comfort, happiness, health, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hardship, adversity |
| Synonyms: | bad luck, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, crunch, destitution, difficulty, disaster, downer, drag*, exigency, hard knocks, hard time, holy mess, hot water, indigence, jam*, misfortune, need, pickle, pinch*, poverty, privation, rigor, rotten luck, scrape*, straits, throe, ticklish spot, tough break, tough luck, trial, trouble, unholy mess, vicissitude, want |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, miracle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure; sudden emotion |
| Synonyms: | access, attack, blow, bout, burst, caprice, conniption, convulsion, epileptic attack, frenzy, humor, jumps, mood, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rage, rush, spasm, spate, spell, stroke, tantrum, throe, torrent, turn, twitch, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childbirth process |
| Synonyms: | birth, birth pangs, childbearing, contractions, delivery, giving birth, pains, parturition, throes, travail |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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