The Only Use of
retch
in
Fahrenheit 451
- This dark land rising was like that day in his childhood, swimming, when from nowhere the largest wave in the history of remembering slammed him down in salt mud and green darkness, water burning mouth and nose, retching his stomach, screaming!†
p. 137.3retching = having vomiting spasms
Definition:
an involuntary vomiting spasm, but generally with nothing coming up