Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To try to vomit.
- v. To vomit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To reach.
- To make efforts to vomit.
- Same as reck.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
- v. obsolete To care for; to heed; to reck.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- n. an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
Etymologies
- From Middle English *recchen, *rechen, from Old English hrǣċan ("to clear the throat, hawk, spit"), from Proto-Germanic *hrēkijanan (“to clear one's throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Icelandic hrækja ("to hawk, spit"). (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of Middle English rechen, from Old English hrǣcan, to clear the throat, spit, bring up (phlegm). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She began to retch, retch again ... retch ... then let out a long stream of perfectly tuned dogfart.”
“His carry-on held 18 medications, his feeding device, a blue towel in case he needed to retch and a snack — a container of his supplemental formula.”
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“Wins but No Rings Here are the teams that have had the best record over a 10-year st retch in their respective leagues without winning a championship.”
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“As he drank from me, my skin crawled and I resisted the urge to retch, the sickness and corruption inside him feeling as if it were seeping under my skin.”
“You are such a racist pile of dogshit you make me want to retch”
“I retch over the sink, spit, and hand the brush over to Bob.”
“She tried to retch, but she felt the carrot lodge even more firmly in her throat.”
“I don't mind features about top of the line gear, but if I read another piece about an "inexpensive" pair of $1,500 binoculars or an "inexpensive" $1,000 scope, I may retch.”
“I wish he were here so I could retch all over his shoes.”
“My bottom jaw is tingling like I am going to retch.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘retch’.
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 343 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
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Darkness of Mind
fiend, lurid, phantom, macabre, rotten, ghastly, sallow, ghoulish, pallid, crooked, wan, congeal and 5 more...
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gross
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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No Comeuppance!
comeuppance, ersatz, mensuration, felicitous, puissant, coccyx, groin vault, jactitation, titivate, crapulous, bibulous, lucubration and 116 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that are visually, sonically, or by definition unpleasant.
kumquat, squat, poke, vomit, chunk, globule, phlegm, sac, armpit, crotch, fecund, fecal and 26 more...
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The Art Of Ejection
Vomit words, both method and substance.
vomit, barf, chunder, throw, toss, upchuck, technicolour yawn, speak on the grea..., bark, spew, puke, burp bits and 75 more...
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wachoomaycallit
Random words. Mostly coming from the book of I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy
bland, retch, taunt, seam, indecipherable, douse, scornful, cringing, cringe, incarcerate, dormant, sneer and 13 more...
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