Usually means: Vomited slightly; gagged without expulsion.
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  1. retched: Merriam-Webster
  2. retched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. retched: Vocabulary.com
  4. retched: Wordnik
  5. retched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. retched: Wiktionary
  7. Retched, retched: Dictionary.com
  8. retched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Retched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Retched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. retched: FreeDictionary.org
  12. retched: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retched: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retched: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. retched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (retch)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
noun:  An unsuccessful effort to vomit.
verb:  (ambitransitive, obsolete) To reck.
verb:  (dialectal) Alternative form of reach [(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).]
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