midst, cusp, verge, brink, imploding, birth pangs, tailspin, pangs, disarray, girding, stupor, rages, precipice, aftermath, stirrings, stages, shambles, doldrums, nadir, tatters, foundering, manifestation, surcease, dire straits, paroxysms, convulsing, upshot, convulsions, vortex, onset, infancy, teeters, impends, limbo, grand mal, engulfing, presages, wake, stave off, lurches, charnel house, headlong, maelstrom, presentiment, disintegrating, enervation, bewitchment, weimar republic, inexorability, twilight zone, endlessness, coping, abyss, epicenter, agony, sputtering, embroils, memento mori, suffering, apogee, ironies, interregnum, tizzies, prelude, grips, desuetude, inevitability, paranoic, totters, wallows, brewing, netherworld, apotheosis, nineties, quagmire, mire, zenith, coup de foudre, rictus, stasis, amidst, depths, tumult, thrall, decrepitude, imminence, evitable, weepiness, incubus, incarnate, purgatory, wracking, hallucination, upheaval, whimper, ascendant, recoiling, stumbling, joylessness, courting, beastliness, enfeeblement, agonies, straggle, struggle, paroxysm, travail, tussle, anguish, hunger, shudder, screams, sickness, ordeals, scrimmage, struggles

., throe

hurt, suffering