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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Forceful attempts at vomiting without bringing up the contents of the stomach; retching.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Ineffectual attempts to vomit; retching.
  • noun The vomiting of but little matter, or vomiting with little effort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An ineffectual attempt to vomit.
  • noun The vomiting of but little matter; also, that vomiting which is effected with little effort.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine Repeated ineffectual attempts at vomiting; retching.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[vomit + (mict)urition.]

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