Usually means: Attempt to vomit; feel nauseous.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. retch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retch: Merriam-Webster
  3. retch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retch, retch: Wordnik
  8. retch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retch: Wiktionary
  10. retch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. retch: Dictionary.com
  14. retch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. retch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Retch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Retch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. retch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. retch: Rhymezone
  20. retch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. retch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. retch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. retch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. retch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. retch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. retch: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. retch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
noun:  An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
verb:  (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck.
verb:  (dialectal) Alternative form of reach [(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).]

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