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Definition of retches:

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

Definition of retches:

(v) : (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
(v) : (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
(n) : An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
(v) : (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck.
(v) : (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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