[
UK
/ɹˈɛtʃ/
]
VERB
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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 - make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
NOUN
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an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
a bad case of the heaves
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
- Sophie's more casual outfit consists of a black Powerline stretch sleeveless top, Kismet's own label sarong, and an orange, multi-strand bugle bead bracelet.
- 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
