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# retch

«retch» in Mova's school dictionary: **to strain the throat and stomach as if about to be sick…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (retch, retches, retched, retching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To retch is to strain the throat and stomach as if about to be sick, without being sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/#m1)

2) (dialect, old use) To retch is to reach or stretch out a hand or arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in dialect tales «retch» means reach; in ordinary use it means to heave as if about to vomit

### examples

- He began to retch and gag at the bad smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/#x1)
- "You speck to retch there safe and sound?" (= reach) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/#x2)
- He retched out his hand to shake hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «retch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.