Retch

Quick meaning: Retch is a verb meaning (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

Meaning

(transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

More Meanings

1. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
4. (dialectal) Alternative form of reach.

Example Sentences

Here he grew inarticulate with retching.

[…] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.

[…] 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 […]

“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 […]

Word Forms

• retches
• retching
• retched

Synonyms for retch

Depending on context, synonyms include cast, cat, sick, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disgorge, regorge, puke, vomit, upchuck, regurgitate.

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