the throes of childbirth
21pain — (p[=a]n), n. [OE. peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr. poinh penalty. Cf. {Penal}, {Pine} to languish, {Punish}.] 1. Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime …
22ed- (*heĝh-) — ed (*heĝh ) English meaning: to eat, *tooth Note: From an older root (*heĝh ) derived Root ed (*heĝh ): “to eat, *tooth” and Root ĝembh , ĝm̥bh : “to bite; tooth” Deutsche Übersetzung: “essen” Note: originally athematic,… …
23dāu-, dǝu-, dū̆ - — dāu , dǝu , dū̆ English meaning: to burn Deutsche Übersetzung: 1. “brennen”, 2. “verletzen, quälen, vernichten, feindselig” Note: uncertainly, whether in both meaning originally identical (possibly partly as “ burning pain “,… …
24throe — n. (usu. in pl.) 1 a violent pang, esp. of childbirth or death. 2 anguish. Phrases and idioms: in the throes of struggling with the task of. Etymology: ME throwe perh. f. OE threa, thrawu calamity, alt. perh. by assoc. with woe …
25pid- — pid English meaning: to bear (child) Deutsche Übersetzung: “gebären”?? originally ‘stark ziehen”? Note: only Gmc. and Celt. Material: Goth. fitan “ to give birth to children “, perhaps to O.E. fitt “fight”, Eng. fit “ attack… …
26labor — n 1. work, employment, job, occupation, living, livelihood, means of support. 2. toil, travail, sweat of one s brow, moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work or toil, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness,… …
27confinement — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, beleaguerment, besetment, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blockade, blockading, boundary, bounds, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, circumscription, closeness, constraint, continence,… …
28labor — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim, always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be confined, be determined, be employed, bear, bear a child, bear young, belabor, birth, birth throes,… …
29birth — Synonyms and related words: Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, abiogenesis, abortion, accouchement, affiliation, allele, allelomorph …
30blessed event — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, birth, birth throes, birthing, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the Nativity …
