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Betekenis (Engels)

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

braken

kokhalzen

spue

vomit up

toss one’s cookies

feel nauseated

be disgusting

be nauseated

feel like vomiting

suffer from nausea

bring up wind

heave up

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɹɛt͡ʃ/

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”).