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Noun retch has 1 sense
- heave, retch - an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves"
--1 is a kind of spasm
Verb retch has 2 senses
- vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
--1 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s something
- gag, heave, retch - make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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