Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɛtʃ/
retch (retches, present participle retching; past and past participle retched)
- To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
- Here he grew inarticulate with retching.
- German: würgen
- Italian: avere conati di vomito
- Portuguese: engulhar
- Russian: пыта́ться
- Spanish: tener arcadas
retch (plural retches)
- An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
- French: haut-le-cœur
- Italian: conato, conato di vomito
- Spanish: arcada
retch (retches, present participle retching; past and past participle retched)
- (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck
retch (retches, present participle retching; past and past participle retched)
- (dialectal) to reach
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