transcription, транскрипция: [ θroʊz ]
1.
If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages. ( FORMAL )
...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war.
N-PLURAL : usu prep N , N of n
2.
If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it. ( FORMAL )
The country is in the throes of a general election...
PREP-PHRASE
3.
see also death throes