"death throe" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: death throes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} death throe (plural death throes)
  1. (chiefly in the plural) Struggle that is followed by death. Tags: in-plural Translations (struggle that is followed by death): հոգեվարք (hogevarkʻ) (Armenian), agonio (Esperanto), Todeszuckung [feminine] (German), arraing an bháis [feminine] (Irish), dødskamp [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), dødskamp [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), último coletazo (Spanish), dödsryckning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-death_throe-en-noun-CYHAs2HD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 23 17 Disambiguation of 'struggle that is followed by death': 96 2 2
  2. (chiefly in the plural) The final movements or sounds, often erratic, of a living being as it dies. Tags: in-plural
    Sense id: en-death_throe-en-noun-8E5lm-EO
  3. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) The final actions or output of a machine or other object before it ceases to function. Tags: figuratively, in-plural
    Sense id: en-death_throe-en-noun-jnchjIIl

Inflected forms

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