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in the throes of

in the throes of preposition: heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.

Preposition

in the throes of

  1. Heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.
    • We won't be able to meet next week as we will be in the throes of moving offices. Perhaps the week after will be better.
    • By 1922, when The Railway Magazine attained its Silver Jubilee, the railways were in the throes of grouping, the Act for which had been passed the previous year, and which came fully into force in 1923.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496

in the throes of meaning in Malayalam

in the throes of in Malayalam

in the process of, in the middle of, in the midst of
മദ്ധ്യത്തിൽ, മദ്ധ്യേ, ഇടയിൽ, നടുക്ക്, നടപടിയിൽ, പുരോഗതിയിൽ

Questions about in the throes of

What does in the throes of mean?
In the throes of means heavily occupied, or busily involved in an important activity.
What is in the throes of in Malayalam?
In the throes of in Malayalam is മദ്ധ്യത്തിൽ, മദ്ധ്യേ, ഇടയിൽ. See In the throes of meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in the throes of?
In the throes of is a preposition.

Words near in the throes of in the dictionary

  1. in the swim of things
  2. in the tank
  3. in the teeth of
  4. in the thick of
  5. in the thick of it
  6. in the throes of
  7. in the throws of
  8. in the toilet
  9. in the trenches
  10. in the twinkling of a bedpost
  11. in the twinkling of a bedstaff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the throes of (page history and authors); in the throes of (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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