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- verb Present participle of
wretch .
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Examples
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The guy is both wretching and laughing at the same time.
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Dogs are like our children (sometimes they are my favorite children!) and it must have been heart-wretching to see!
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Instead we refer to them as round balls of cells and whatnot so we can comb our hair in the morning without wretching.
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You can help them even as you hand them the hotel and restaurant bills, though the clarity in your message may cloud a bit as your laughter is overtaken by your shuddering and wretching, quivering and convulsing, as specific memories of the previous night begin to emerge from blackout.
Dorothy's Parker House Rolls: A Jazz Age Recipe Rebecca Coffey 2011
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The first time we meet Victoria, she is wretching her guts into the toilet with her mother standing above her in dishabille, smoking a cigarette into her face while threatening to throw her out of the house.
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There was wretching and diahrrea and a lot of "read to me!"
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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The guy is both wretching and laughing at the same time.
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CNN .... stop buttering your nose on OBama's backside trying to display humanistic stories ... the poor woman died; and it was gut wretching to watch, as millions of us did, long before Obama has to comment.
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Instead we refer to them as round balls of cells and whatnot so we can comb our hair in the morning without wretching.
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I had planned to fly home Monday afternoon after my extended weekend stay, but when I found myself wretching on the floor of their bathroom Sunday night, body wracked with the effects of food poisoning, so my extended stay got a little more extended!
KC Jessica 2009
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