Fetch vs. Retch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fetch and Retch
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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
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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!
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