What's the difference between fetch and retch?

Fetch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
  • (v. t.) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
  • (v. t.) To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
  • (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
  • (v. t.) To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
  • (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
  • (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
  • (n.) A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice.
  • (n.) The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nationalisation of a travel agency sounds far-fetched, but has a historical precedent.
  • (2) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
  • (3) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
  • (4) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
  • (5) Like the rest of Katine, the medical staff have to fetch their water in jerry cans from a nearby borehole.
  • (6) Royal Mail has put its former south London mail centre at Nine Elms up for sale, which analysts estimate could fetch up to £662m.
  • (7) For example, a council home in south London could easily fetch £500,000 on an open market valuation.
  • (8) It is an optimistic but not completely far-fetched vision.
  • (9) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
  • (10) The letter will go on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £8,000.
  • (11) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
  • (12) Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
  • (13) Maybe: as long as “Panchito” continues to push the messages that are strike a chord with US Latino Catholics, it is not far-fetched to say that this 21 st century pope could go down as the most transformative leader the Church and its faithful in the Americas have ever seen.
  • (14) For a start, the idea that George Osborne would increase the tax threshold simply to play footsie with Nick Clegg is far-fetched.
  • (15) Analysis of data revealed that 70% of students wash and fetch water in the streams and ponds for domestic purposes.
  • (16) The story of a secret tunnel between Rich's office and the Glashof restaurant may be far fetched, but Lang says that during the day he refused to leave his office without a cordon of Mossad-trained bodyguards, and during the evening on the ride back to Baar he insisted on a tail car to accompany his Mercedes.
  • (17) Artistic comparisons with Joseph Brodsky are far-fetched .
  • (18) One reporter watched astonished as the president went off to fetch biscuits.
  • (19) Surely there must be some hilarious anecdotes from those days when he was fetching beef sandwiches for Brian Johnston?
  • (20) By 2005 he was the highest paid painter in India with his work easily fetching $1m (£538,000).

Retch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
  • (v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
  • (2) No dose produced retching, vomiting, diarrhea or other behavioral signs of toxicity.
  • (3) Nausea was assessed by a patient-completed visual analogue scale and episodes of retching recorded by the patient and an independent observer.
  • (4) Straining and retching behaviors exhibited by the nerves innervating other thoracic accessory inspiratory muscles (the intercartilagineus, rectus thoracis, scalenus) varied from dog to dog.
  • (5) In contrast, none of the inspiratory units from the external intercostal nerves exhibited such intense discharges with straining and retching.
  • (6) Incidence and severity of emesis (none, nausea, retching or vomiting) was assessed during the first 24 hours after operation.
  • (7) Vomiting, induced by stimulation of the lower thoracic vagi, consisted of a series of synchronous bursts of diaphragmatic and abdominal activity (retching) followed by a prolonged abdominal discharge after the cessation of diaphragmatic activity (expulsion).
  • (8) Fictive vomiting was defined as a series of large bursts of synchronous activity in the phrenic and abdominal (expiratory) nerves (retching) followed by a burst in which the abdominal activity was prolonged (expulsion).
  • (9) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
  • (10) Internal intercostal (expiratory) muscles contract out of phase with these muscles during retching and are inactive during expulsion.
  • (11) When James lay down to sleep, he retched from the smell then ran out the door with his pillow to throw it away, everyone laughing.
  • (12) 3 Doses of apomorphine that caused a decrease in blood pressure on intravenous injection, had no effect on blood pressure or caused retching accompanied by an increase in blood pressure on intravertebral or intracisternal administration.
  • (13) All patients were monitored for emetic episodes (vomiting or retching), adverse events, and laboratory safety parameters.
  • (14) These results suggest that 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are capable of ameliorating radiation-induced retching and vomiting and that, while an important site of their action could be the abdominal vagi, other areas are probably also involved.
  • (15) We determined (1) gastric emptying rates; (2) the presence and frequency of retching and vomiting; and (3) the effect of zacopride on the performance of a visual discrimination task in nonirradiated subjects.
  • (16) This was accompanied by a prolonged period of mydriasis and preceded by a short interval of restlessness, licking, retching and emesis.
  • (17) The discharge patterns during retching were classified into seven types in accordance with the discharge phase in the retching cycle and the discharge frequency.
  • (18) And if that means staying silent as your subject salivates his way through a truly disgusting account of a threesome, as the male crew laugh along, then you try to hide your desire to retch.
  • (19) • Pistorius' retching and crying was not feigned , Vorster said: he could not fake pallor .
  • (20) Therefore, the effects of bilateral abdominal vagotomy and antagonism of 5-HT3 receptors have been investigated on retching and vomiting induced by radiation.