0 the process of dying or ending in a very painful or unpleasant way: --
The wyvern in its death throes turned onto its back and floated down the river.
But the giant must have plummeted to death, the crashing caused by him in his death throes.
Its final death throes are ever closer.
Leaving aside the convolutions of the 1986 budget and its death throes, the pantomime of the 1987 budget is still to come.
This concerns the housing co-ownership scheme, which is in its death throes.
One sees a party in its death throes.
I would regard that as not quite the death knell but pretty well the death throes of the local education authority.
It is an attempt to make the death throes less painful.
