Pronunciations
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/ɹɛt͡ʃ/
Verb
To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
Usage- Intransitive
- Transitive
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Here he grew inarticulate with retching.
To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
Usage- broadly
- Intransitive
- Transitive
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[…] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.
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[…] severe, with a heavy retching; the contents of the stomach would come up rather easily at first, but as it continued the retching became more severe. By the straining to vomit, all the symptoms were […]
[…] retching the contents of his breakfast – his fabled raw eggs and beer by the look of it – up onto the sidewalk. But some sort of salvation seemed to be at hand in the shape of a young woman who now came up to the retching poet.[…]
“What manner of being are you?” I cried. The creature's black tar viscera flew from the lacerated stump, covering Mary and myself in the fluid. I recall instantly retching the contents of my stomach, while simultaneously […]
Retching the contents from his lungs. The uncomfortable warble of voices called for help, greeting him at the floor. He was laid on a gurney, the slimy contents wiped from his face. The sting of needles inserted in his arms.
Noun
An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
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Verb
To reck.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Obsolete
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Noun
an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
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a bad case of the heaves
Verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
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After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
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The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
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