death throes
noun [plural] literaryDefinition
› the 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.Death and dying
(Definition of death throes noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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