The word 'retch' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when talking about someone trying to vomit, or feeling sick enough that they might vomit. For example, "After eating the bad fish, I had to run to the bathroom to retch."
In one meeting, he pretended to need to relieve himself of his last Diet Coke so he could get out into the corridor to retch.
What caused her nearly to retch was a new animation for transitions in opening apps and folders.
By the water's edge it is hard not to retch.
I chose one of the 12-weekers and it was disgusting: the smell made me retch.
Coldplay went down better on Saturday, though their bland platitudes and second-hand music made me want to retch, while Beyoncé's pumped-up, Hollywood superstar-style Sunday show was the most enjoyable of all; when she adopted her Sasha Fierce alter ego, her pounding drops to her knees and tossing of leonine tresses were mock-ferociously sexy, compensating for the mostly rotten songs.
Simona Bitmate's pained, sullenly defiant niece tries to avoid eye-contact with him as she sits implacably sewing and on one occasion, after he has made shy overtures by showing her a conjuring trick, she has to race outside in the rain to retch (presumably from emotions more mixed than mere disgust).
And so, inevitably, last night's final featured its two remaining contestants Ω former Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts, and EastEnder Charlie Brooks Ω trying not to gag, hurl, and retch while forcing a camel's penis and turkey testicles down their throats.
Now he looked as though he might retch.
But, to someone who still hasn't got over the retch-fest that is a piranha pedicure (conducted with skin-munching garra rufa rather than real piranha, thankfully, as a dip with those feet-eating fish would be a one-time only sort of spa experience), this latest treatment seems one to avoid.
Annagret was somewhere to his left, making the worst sound he'd ever heard, a moan-keen-retch-strangulation sound.
The smell of the place was retch-inducing; dog, mould, cigarettes, vomit, urine, animal innards; a medley of rotting matter.
