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Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
2. (broadly, intransitive, transitive) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.

Noun

An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

Conceptes

vomitar

perbocar

tenir basques

tenir nàusees

Sinònims

vomit

heave

throw up

gag

puke

barf

chuck

disgorge

upchuck

regurgitate

be sick

regorge

belch

cast

cat

😺

honk

nauseate

purge

sick

🤢

spew

eructate

spue

vomit up

toss one’s cookies

chunder

suffocate

frog

🐸

feel nauseated

eruct

choke

yak

be disgusting

be nauseated

feel like vomiting

get sick

Ralph

suffer from nausea

hurl

bring up wind

queasy

reach

hiccup

heave up

Traduccions

würgen

avere conati di vomito

tener náuseas

vomir

haut-le-cœur

conato di vomito

rigettare

braken

rendre

rejeter

vomitare

gerber

dégobiller

rimettere

avoir des haut-le-coeur

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹɛt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: *recchen

Heretat de anglès antic: hrǣċan

Cognat amb islandès: hrækja

Cognat amb limburguès: räöke

Cognat amb bavarès: reckn

Cognat amb alemany: recken

Cognat amb alemany: Rachen

Heretat de anglès mitjà: recchen

Heretat de anglès antic: reċċan

In summary

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”).