throe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.

   “O man haue mind of that laſt bitter throw; / For as the tree does fall, ſo lyes it euer low.”

2. isim The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.

   “As if their own indignant earth, / Which gave the sons of England birth, / Had felt their blood upon her brow, / And shuddering with a mother's throe, / Had turned every drop of blood, / By which her face had been bedewed / To an accent unwithstood, / As if her heart had cried aloud: […]”

3. isim Any severe pang or spasm, especially an outburst of feeling; a paroxysm.

   “Commend me to them, / And tell them, that to eaſe them of their greefes, / Their feares of Hoſtile ſtrokes, their Aches loſſes, / Their pangs of Loue, with other incident throwes / That Natures fragile Veſſell doth ſuſtaine / In lifes vncertaine voyage, I will ſome kindnes do them, […]”

4. isim A hard struggle, especially one associated with the beginning or finishing of a task.

   “Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).”

5. fiil To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.

   “Pre-thee ſay on, / The ſetting of thine eye, and cheeke proclaime / A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, / Which throwes thee much to yeeld.”

6. fiil To feel throes; to struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

   “[W]hile yet he gazed at the wonderful countenance, his memory began to throe and struggle.”

7. isim Synonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”).