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dry-heaves

dry-heaves is the plural of dry-heave.

Meaning of dry-heave

Noun

dry-heave (plural dry-heaves)

  1. An attempt to vomit that ejects only gas.
    • She spent three days in the college infirmary trying to contain her overwhelming feelings of nausea and despair. Every morning for months, she would awake with the dry heaves.1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8
    Synonyms:
    dry vomit

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Questions about dry-heaves

What is dry-heaves the plural of?
Dry-heaves is the plural of dry-heave.

Words near dry-heaves in the dictionary

  1. dry-gulches
  2. dry-gulching
  3. dry-handed
  4. dry-heave
  5. dry-heaved
  6. dry-heaves
  7. dry-heaving
  8. dry-hopped
  9. dry-hump
  10. dry-humped
  11. dry-humping

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