3 uses
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Definition
an involuntary vomiting spasm, but generally with nothing coming up
- Evil. filled with tainted fish, the stomach is already informed but has not yet signaled the brain to retch. filled with the gray.2 — 1907 (36% in)
- He retches, gripped by a pain in the stomach, and I am reminded of our encounter in the Cairo market, all those years before.8 — 1917 (17% in)
- I fell to my knees, and I retched.8 — 1917 (72% in)
There are no more uses of "retch" in Rose Red.
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