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Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

braken

kokhalzen

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

würgen

avere conati di vomito

vomir

haut-le-cœur

tener náuseas

conato di vomito

vomitare

avoir des haut-le-coeur

rejeter

rendre

gerber

dégobiller

rigettare

rimettere

kusma

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɹɛt͡ʃ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: *recchen

Overgenomen van Oudengels: hrǣċan

Verwant aan IJslands: hrækja

Verwant aan Limburgs: räöke

Verwant aan Beiers: reckn

Verwant aan Duits: recken

Verwant aan Duits: Rachen

Overgenomen van Middelengels: recchen

Overgenomen van Oudengels: 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”).