Ask Difference

Fetch vs. Retch — What's the Difference?

Fetch vs. Retch — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fetch and Retch

ADVERTISEMENT

Compare with Definitions

Fetch

Go for and then bring back (someone or something) for someone
He ran to fetch help
She fetched me a cup of tea

Retch

To try to vomit.

Fetch

Achieve (a particular price) when sold
The land could fetch over a million pounds

Retch

To vomit.

Fetch

Inflict (a blow or slap) on (someone)
That brute Cullam fetched him a wallop
ADVERTISEMENT

Retch

To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

Fetch

Cause great interest or delight in (someone)
That air of his always fetches women

Retch

To reck.

Fetch

The distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.

Retch

(dialectal) reach

Fetch

A stratagem or trick.

Retch

An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

Fetch

The apparition or double of a living person, formerly believed to be a warning of that person's impending death.

Retch

To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching!(Here he grew inarticulate with retching.

Fetch

To come or go after and take or bring back
The puppy fetched the stick that I had tossed.

Retch

To care for; to heed; to reck.

Fetch

To cause to come.

Retch

An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting;
A bad case of the heaves

Fetch

To bring in as a price
Fetched a thousand dollars at auction.

Retch

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Fetch

To interest or attract.

Retch

Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

Fetch

To draw in (breath); inhale.

Fetch

To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.

Fetch

(Informal) To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.

Fetch

(Nautical) To arrive at; reach
Fetched port after a month at sea.

Fetch

To go after something and return with it.

Fetch

To retrieve killed game. Used of a hunting dog.

Fetch

To take an indirect route.

Fetch

To hold a course.

Fetch

To turn about; veer.

Fetch

The act or an instance of fetching.

Fetch

A stratagem or trick.

Fetch

The distance over which a wind blows.

Fetch

The distance traveled by waves with no obstruction.

Fetch

A ghost; an apparition.

Fetch

A doppelgänger.

Fetch

To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

Fetch

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000

Fetch

(nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
To fetch headway or sternway

Fetch

(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Fetch

To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)

Fetch

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

Fetch

(obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
To fetch a man to

Fetch

To reduce; to throw.

Fetch

(archaic) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
To fetch a compass;
To fetch a leap

Fetch

To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Fetch

An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.

Fetch

An act of fetching data.
A fetch from a cache

Fetch

The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

Fetch

An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.

Fetch

The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).

Fetch

A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

Fetch

The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a ghost]], a spectre.

Fetch

(Utah) Minced oath for fuck.

Fetch

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.
Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.

Fetch

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.

Fetch

To recall from a swoon; to revive; - sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetching men again when they swoon.

Fetch

To reduce; to throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

Fetch

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.
I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
He fetches his blow quick and sure.

Fetch

To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetchedThe siren's isle.

Fetch

To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
They could n't fetch the butter in the churn.

Fetch

To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

Fetch

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.
Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

Fetch

The apparation of a living person; a wraith.
The very fetch and ghost of Mrs. Gamp.

Fetch

The unobstructed region of the ocean over which the wind blows to generate waves.

Fetch

The length of such a region.

Fetch

Go or come after and bring or take back;
Get me those books over there, please
Could you bring the wine?
The dog fetched the hat

Fetch

Be sold for a certain price;
The painting brought $10,000
The old print fetched a high price at the auction

Fetch

Take away or remove;
The devil will fetch you!

Share Your Discovery

Share via Social Media
Embed This Content
Embed Code
Share Directly via Messenger
Link
Previous Comparison
Posture vs. Positure
Next Comparison
Liability vs. Expense

Popular Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

New Comparisons

Trending Terms