throes vs throws /

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Throes is a violent condition,a painful struggle. Throes is a plural noun, it is almost never expressed as a singular, and throe. Throes is possibly derived from a thirteenth century English word,throwe, which means pang of childbirth, or agony of death,which may in turn fill come from the customary English word þrawan  which means […]

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