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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retch \Retch\, v. t. & i. [See {Reck}.]
To care for to heed; to reck. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retch \Retch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Retched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Retching}.] [AS. hr?can to clear the throat, hawk, fr hraca
throat; akin to G. rachen, and perhaps to E. rack neck.]
To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
[Written also {reach}.]
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew
inarticulate with retching.) --Byron.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
retch
v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much the students vomited" [syn: {vomit}, {vomit
up}, {cast}, {sick}, {cat}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge},
{regorge}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck}, {upchuck},
{honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]
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