as in vomiting
to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth
the smell of rotten cabbage makes me retch
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Recent Examples of retching
The Captain’s Dinner scene in the 2022 film Triangle of Sadness, with its opera of vomit, is satire in a long-standing tradition, going back to the retching sequence on the boat in Céline’s Mort à crédit, and before that to Rabelais.
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Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
As Newcastle prepared to kick-off towards the Gallowgate End, Ramsey began retching.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Vomiting and retching can occur up to five times an hour.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
The preview shows other amateur survivalists taking part in an ice cold plunge, some less than appetizing wilderness meals, and classic reality TV retching, while also managing a full blown… BEAR ALERT!
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Nov. 2025
The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
As Newcastle prepared to kick-off towards the Gallowgate End, Ramsey began retching.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Vomiting and retching can occur up to five times an hour.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
The preview shows other amateur survivalists taking part in an ice cold plunge, some less than appetizing wilderness meals, and classic reality TV retching, while also managing a full blown… BEAR ALERT!
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Nov. 2025
The patient is actually a training dummy that instructors can manipulate into yelling, moaning, retching, suffering blood pressure spikes, heart attacks and other medical emergencies.
—Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for retching
vomiting
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The father, Jagdish, told me that one of his children was vomiting and the other had bloody stools; both were depressed.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Jolene struggled after the surgery and was vomiting and passing out frequently.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Retching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retching. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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