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  • "Go away," I gasped between retches.  (source)
    retches = vomiting spasms
  • Several miles passed in silence; then I heard him retching into the bowl.  (source)
    retching = having vomiting spasms
  • There it was, galloping across a balcony, a flaming, fiery cow, screaming while a Jackboot behind it laughed and the flamethrower retched more fire until the cow plunged through the railing and sailed through the air, flames flapping like wings to the ground.  (source)
    retched = vomited (spewed or ejected)
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  • I would lean up against the wall and wipe my face, then the retching and sickness would start again.  (source)
    retching = vomiting spasms
  • He retched but he wasn't sick.  (source)
    retched = had vomiting spasms
  • Crouching on my hands and knees, I retch until there's nothing left to come up.†  (source)
    retch = an involuntary vomiting spasm
  • The delivery guy retches again, and my stomach churns, wanting to join him.†  (source)
    retches = vomiting spasms
  • In the gray twilight those retchings seemed to echo like the calls of some rude provisional species loosed upon that waste.†  (source)
  • He took advantage of Nicole's absence to cough hard and retchingly into his handkerchief, and to blow his nose loud.†  (source)
  • My mouth filled with saliva, a sign of the retching that was yet to come.†  (source)
    retching = having vomiting spasms
  • He retched and ducked out of sight again.†  (source)
    retched = had vomiting spasms
  • Sometimes I called Laura a pest and told her not to bother me, and only last week I'd found her licking an envelope — one of my own special envelopes, for thank-you notes — and had told her that the glue on them was made from boiled horses, which had caused her to retch and sniffle.†  (source)
    retch = an involuntary vomiting spasm
  • Just before landing he goes into the bathroom, retches into the tiny metal basin.†  (source)
    retches = vomiting spasms
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