Just remembering the smell of that rotten food makes me want to retch.
Source: tatoeba (8928682)
Retch
//ɹɛt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "retch" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
42 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- гадене noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- повдигане noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- гади ми се verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- повдига ми се verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Catalan
1 entries- arcada noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乾嘔 /干呕 noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
Czech
2 entries- dávit se verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- zvracet verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Danish
1 entries- gylpe verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Dutch
3 entries- braakneiging noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- braken verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- kokhalzen verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Finnish
1 entries- kakoa verb (to make an effort to vomit)
French
1 entries- haut-le-cœur noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
Galician
1 entries- arquexar verb (to make an effort to vomit)
German
1 entries- würgen verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Hungarian
1 entries- öklendezik verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Italian
3 entries- conato noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- conato di vomito noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- avere conati di vomito verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Mongolian
1 entries- огих verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Māori
4 entries- whakapoutikitanga noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- pūkanekane verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- pūtanetane verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- whakapoutiki verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Norman
1 entries- haler au tchoeu verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اوكورمك verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Persian
1 entries- هراش noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
Portuguese
2 entries- arranco noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- engulhar verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Russian
1 entries- пыта́ться рыгнуть verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nàpinjati se na povraćanje verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- на̀пињати се на повраћање verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Spanish
4 entries- arcada noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- basca noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- basquear verb (to make an effort to vomit)
- tener arcadas verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Swedish
1 entries- hulka verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Tagalog
2 entries- duwal noun (an unsuccessful effort to vomit)
- maduwal verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Turkish
1 entries- öğürmek verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ọe verb (to make an effort to vomit)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Sorry for what I wrote, because I wanted to retch.
Source: tatoeba (10094993)
Here he grew inarticulate with retching.
Source: wiktionary
[…] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.
Source: wiktionary
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