death throesnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈdeθ ˌθrəʊz/us/ˈdeθ ˌθroʊz/literarythe process of dying or ending in a very painful or unpleasant way:
Mercutio, fatally stabbed, staggers round the stage in his death throes.
The government was in its death throes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- in extremis
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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