▸ 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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