Definition of "retching" [retching]

• Present participle of retch. (verb)

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• "I agree, the version that Working linked to with the actual dialogue and retching is even more compelling viewing."
• "Just as I was about to yawn, stretch, and admit that my finely tuned cerebral powers were on hiatus, I heard a kind of retching moan."
• "They believe that the Greek word lugx, which Thucydides uses in his description of symptoms and which had previously been translated as "retching" or "dry heaving," may have been the word for hiccup."