violent pains, especially at the moment of death (尤指死亡时的)剧痛 Oxford Collocations DictionaryThroes is used after these nouns:- death
Word OriginMiddle English throwe (singular); perhaps related to Old English thrēa, thrawu ‘calamity’, influenced by thrōwian ‘suffer’.
Idioms
in the throes of something/of doing something