retch

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.Examples: "Here he grew inarticulate with retching."intransitivetransitive

2. (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.Examples: "[…] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth."; "[…] severe, with a heavy retching; the contents of the stomach would come up rather easily at first, but as it continued the retching became more severe. By the straining to vomit, all the symptoms were […]"; "[…] retching the contents of his breakfast – his fabled raw eggs and beer by the look of it – up onto the sidewalk. But some sort of salvation seemed to be at hand in the shape of a young woman who now came up to the retching poet.[…]"broadlyintransitivetransitive