What's the difference between throe and throve?

Throe

Definition:

(v. t.) To put in agony.
(n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
(n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
(v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Example Sentences:

(1) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(2) And then in the final throes, more than enough incident for a whole game!
(3) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
(4) Gordimer won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, a novel about a white South African who loses everything, and the Nobel Prize in 1991, when apartheid was in its death throes.
(5) The quarter-on-quarter leap in lending is the biggest since 2007, when the housing market boom was in its final throes.
(6) NYSE Euronext, which runs the New York Stock exchange and the London futures exchange and is itself in the throes of being taken over by a rival, is setting up a new London-based subsidiary to run Libor.
(7) Commentators have been queuing up to analyse the death throes of the paid-for printed news model.
(8) Yes, during its death throes, our sun will swell, boiling the oceans and turning the ice caps to steam.
(9) As described by Bloomberg, the US is in the throes of a major shift in energy production.
(10) Developed and developing countries are in the throes of environmental crisis.
(11) What the family could not entirely grasp on that day was that Mississippi was in the throes of a new statewide campaign of cross-burnings and violence organised by the Klan to protest at the start of investigations by Congress into civil rights abuses.
(12) Indeed, many would argue that Turkey was already in the throes of a slow motion coup d’état, not by the military but by Erdoğan himself.
(13) It seems such an awfully long time ago now, the Preston and Chantelle romance, long enough ago anyway that Big Brother was still a cultural force, or, at least, still watched by significant numbers of people, and not in the awful embarrassing death throes it's currently experiencing nightly on Channel 4.
(14) It is now in the throes of a contest between two candidates whose personal and professional backgrounds seem to illustrate the fault lines in current policy debate.
(15) Mickey is a guy who clearly can't cut it as an assassin or anything else: a depressive, an alcoholic, a person who we encounter in the virtual death throes of his professional and personal existence.
(16) Updated at 3.00pm BST 1.16pm BST More from Turkey Constanze Letsch has sent this from Istanbul: Fehim Tastekin writes in the daily Radikal: "It is natural that many smile that the UU received the prize at a time when it seems in its death throes.
(17) Austin is in the throes of a multi-pronged crisis within his command.
(18) Tsipras has persistently surprised and out-manoeuvred his opposite numbers, but without securing any net gains for a country in the throes of financial collapse.
(19) For a country in the throes of separatism, the World Cup is providing almost a surreal glue of unity.
(20) The question of how Australia ought to respond to Indochinese refugees had been hotly debated between April and August 1975 but had been overshadowed by the death throes of the Whitlam government.