Retch

  • 11retch — [[t]re̱tʃ[/t]] retches, retching, retched VERB If you retch, your stomach moves as if you are vomiting. The smell made me retch. Syn: heave …

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  • 12retch — verb 1) the sour taste made her retch Syn: gag, heave, almost vomit 2) he went into the bushes to retch See vomit 1. 1) …

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  • 13retch / wretch —    To retch is to try and vomit: Furman retched several times after swallowing a bite of Lurleen s liver pudding.    A wretch is a miserable or wicked person: I didn t believe she could be such a wretch …

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  • 14retch / wretch —    To retch is to try and vomit: Furman retched several times after swallowing a bite of Lurleen s liver pudding.    A wretch is a miserable or wicked person: I didn t believe she could be such a wretch …

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  • 15retch — /rech/, v.i. 1. to make efforts to vomit. v.t. 2. to vomit. n. 3. the act or an instance of retching. [1540 50; var. of reach, OE hraecan to clear the throat (not recorded in ME), deriv. of hraca a clearing of the throat; cf. ON hraekja to hawk,… …

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  • 16retch — verb /ɹɛtʃ/ To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting …

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  • 17retch — Synonyms and related words: barf, be nauseated, be seasick, be sick, bring up, choke on, chuck up, disgorge, egest, feed the fish, feel disgust, gag, heave, heave the gorge, keck, puke, regurgitate, reject, sick up, sicken at, spew, throw up,… …

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  • 18retch — Gullah Words reach, reaches, reached, reaching …

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  • 19retch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. vomit (see ejection). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. heave, gag, throw up; see vomit . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. gag, vomit, heave, *barf, *puke, *hurl, *ralph, have dry heaves, *upchuck …

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  • 20retch — wretch …

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