0 experiencing or doing something that is difficult, unpleasant, or painful:
1 difficulties or pain:
Some of these "others" did not seem, in the throes of emotion, to turn their decisions over to family members.
Other authors wrestled with ' the throes of an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119).
A man is rushed to a hospital in the throes of a heart attack.
The wind carries the song, the ecstasies and throes of which parallel and even sympathize with the surge and swell of the river.
Immediately, there is a distracting sound from the sofa, and he hears, once again, as he had in his dream, the death throes of the old countess.
This elision of rural life and hunting is recent: the political threat to hunting has become a symbol for an occupational group in the throes of drastic economic 'rationalisation'.
If performance factors influence children's linguistic performance because they are in the throes of language learning, children and adults do not share the same linguistic performance capacities.
A nursing home resident said to be a vegetable is treated differently from one who, say, ' has his wits about him ' or who is consciously in the throes of death.
