1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   "After drinking too much, the students retched";
   - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
    
2. Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
   "The strong odour made him retch";
   - gag, heave

1. An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
   "a bad case of the retches";
   - heave

Sounds like: resting, wre, retch

Derived forms: retching, retches, retched

Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, move, pass, spasm

Encyclopedia: Retch