retch

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

retches

V_ing/Gerund

retching

V_ed/pp

retchedreach

1.
(intransitive, transitive)To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
2.
(broadly, intransitive, transitive)(transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
3.
(ambitransitive, obsolete)To reck.
4.
(alt of, alternative, dialectal)Alternative form of reach.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

retchesreach

1.
An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

Từ liên quan

Cùng gốc / liên quan

retcherretchless wretchlessretchless, wretchlessheave

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English *recchen, *rechen (attested in arechen), hræcen (to cough up), from Old English hrǣċan (to clear the throat, hawk, spit), from *hrākijan, from Proto-Germanic *hrēkijaną (to clear one's throat), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (to caw, crow). Cognate with hrækja, räöke, reckn and recken. Also related with Rachen.