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Throe vs Turmoil - What's the difference?

throe | turmoil |

As nouns the difference between throe and turmoil

is that throe is a pang, spasm while turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty.

As verbs the difference between throe and turmoil

is that throe is to put in agony while turmoil is (obsolete|intransitive) to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

throe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pang, spasm.
  • * 1819 , :
    • As if their own indignant Earth
    Which gave the sons of England birth
    Had felt their blood upon her brow,
    And shuddering with a mother's throe
    Had turned every drop of blood
    By which her face had been bedewed
    To an accent unwithstood, —
    As if her heart had cried aloud: [...]
  • A hard struggle.
  • A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * in the throes of

    Verb

  • To put in agony.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
  • *:SEBASTIAN:
    • Prithee, say on:
    The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
    A matter from thee, and a birth, indeed
    Which throes thee much to yield.
  • To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

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    turmoil

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title=]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971 England 1-0 Ukraine] , passage=Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.}}
  • Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

    Synonyms

    * chaos, disorder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
  • * Spenser
    • It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

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