the throes of childbirth

  • 31childbearing — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, bearing, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition, the …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 32delivery — Synonyms and related words: Emancipation Proclamation, abalienation, accommodation, accordance, accouchement, affranchisement, alienation, amortization, amortizement, articulation, assignation, assignment, attack, award, awarding, bargain and… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 33genesis — Synonyms and related words: abiogenesis, accouchement, adaptation, alpha, archigenesis, babyhood, beginning, beginnings, biogenesis, biological evolution, birth, birth throes, birthing, blastogenesis, blessed event, childbearing, childbed,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 34hatching — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, arabesque, authorship, band, bar, basketry, basketwork, beginning, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, burr, cancellation, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chiseling, coinage, conception,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 35nascency — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, babyhood, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 36nativity — Synonyms and related words: aboriginality, accouchement, aspect, astrodiagnosis, astrology, astromancy, autochthonousness, babyhood, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 37parturition — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 38stork — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, labor, multiparity, nascency, nativity, parturition …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 39travail — Synonyms and related words: accouchement, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, calve, cast, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, dig, dirty work, donkeywork, drop, drudge …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40Throe — Throe, n. [OE. [thorn]rowe, [thorn]rawe, AS. [thorn]re[ a] a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. [thorn]r[=a] a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. [thorn]reowian to suffer.] 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish;… …

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