retch
verb (used without object)
to make efforts to vomit.
had been retching
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past perfect progressiveof retch.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She declared Meri had neither tasted food or slept since my departure, but had been retching all the time.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
