retching

Verb (1)

retch (third-person singular simple present retches, present participle retching, simple past and past participle retched)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
   • Here he grew inarticulate with retching.1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII)
2. (broadly, intransitive, transitive) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
   • […] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.1836, The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, page 462

Verb (2)

retch (third-person singular simple present retches, present participle retching, simple past and past participle retched)

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck.

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