retch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
动词 v.
  1. To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit. intransitive,transitive
    — Here he grew inarticulate with retching.
  2. To reck. ambitransitive,obsolete
  3. Alternative form of reach. alt-of,alternative,dialectal
  4. To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit. broadly,intransitive,transitive
    — […] in a couple of hours they were seized with violent retching; the contents of their stomachs were mixed with blood, mucus, and froth.

词形变化

retches present,singular,third-person retching participle,present retched participle,past retched past reach alternative retches plural reach alternative retches present,singular,third-person retching participle,present retched participle,past retched past retches present,singular,third-person retching participle,present retched participle,past retched past raught obsolete,participle,past raught obsolete,past

词汇关系

衍生词
retcher

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *recchen, *rechen (attested in arechen), hræcen (“to cough up”), from Old English hrǣċan (“to clear the throat, hawk, spit”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrākijan, from Proto-Germanic *hrēkijaną (“to clear one's throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreg- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Icelandic hrækja (“to hawk, spit”), Limburgish räöke (“to induce vomiting”), Bavarian reckn (“to retch, gag”) and German recken (“to retch, gag”). Also related with German Rachen (“throat”).
词源 2
From Middle English recchen (“to care; heed”), from Old English rēċċan, variant of rēċan (“to care; reck”), from Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną (“to care”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“straight, right, just”).
词源 3
From Middle English recchen, from Old English reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-West Germanic *rakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to straighten, stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵéyeti.
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