Get to know Retch better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like heave or spew.
Retch meaning
- To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
- To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
Synonyms of Retch
Using Retch
- The main meaning on this page is: To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit. | To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
- Useful related words include: heave, spew, barf, puke.
Context around Retch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Retch
- In this selection, "retch" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, visceral and thompson stand out and add context to how "retch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a visceral retch and and even retch as flight. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "retch" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with retch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Plus the other one that we know, "A Visceral Retch". (10 words)
Ryanair passengers cry, pray and even retch as flight from. (10 words)
Did no one tell her that, given she was filmed and recorded in 2016 saying David Cameron’s own resignation honours list “made her retch”, she would be somewhat exposed doing her own, identical, arguably even more egregious one? (39 words)
It took a scene so squalid that the deputy who discovered it fled to retch: Thompson was found in a filthy cell on the medical wing of the Rice Street jail, covered in lice and his own waste, his head in a toilet. (43 words)
Did no one tell her that, given she was filmed and recorded in 2016 saying David Cameron’s own resignation honours list “made her retch”, she would be somewhat exposed doing her own, identical, arguably even more egregious one? (39 words)
Plus the other one that we know, "A Visceral Retch". (10 words)
Did no one tell her that, given she was filmed and recorded in 2016 saying David Cameron’s own resignation honours list “made her retch”, she would be somewhat exposed doing her own, identical, arguably even more egregious one? (39 words)
Example sentences (4)
It took a scene so squalid that the deputy who discovered it fled to retch: Thompson was found in a filthy cell on the medical wing of the Rice Street jail, covered in lice and his own waste, his head in a toilet.
Plus the other one that we know, "A Visceral Retch".
Ryanair passengers cry, pray and even retch as flight from.
Did no one tell her that, given she was filmed and recorded in 2016 saying David Cameron’s own resignation honours list “made her retch”, she would be somewhat exposed doing her own, identical, arguably even more egregious one?