All 3 Uses
retch
in
The Hunger Games
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- Crouching on my hands and knees, I retch until there's nothing left to come up.†
p. 174.1retch = an involuntary vomiting spasm
- Which is good, because I'm retching again.†
p. 176.1 *retching = having vomiting spasms
- The force of the retching has squeezed tears out of my stinging eyes.†
p. 176.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(retch) an involuntary vomiting spasm, but generally with nothing coming up
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)