[ UK /ɹˈɛt‍ʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
    After drinking too much, the students vomited
    He purged continuously
  2. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
NOUN
  1. an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
    a bad case of the heaves
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How To Use retch In A Sentence

  • They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage. War
  • A fisherman's son opened this beachside restaurant, which stretches down into the sand. Times, Sunday Times
  • She huffed, stood up, arched her back in a heavyweight stretch, turned to the fountain and started in on a long, long drink.
  • Migration into the cities is putting a strain on already stretched resources.
  • Get up and stretch when on long journeys such as on a coach or plane.
  • The court sought to stretch modest finite resources so far as possible to meet the parties' needs. Times, Sunday Times
  • He finished stretching when he was a beanpole, roughly three meters, or eight or nine feet.
  • The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
  • The left side of the fairway is preferred, short of three bunkers that stretch across at 328 yards. USATODAY.com - Open history at St. George's plus a hole-by-hole glance
  • Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
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