Fetch vs. Retch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fetch and Retch
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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
Retch➦
To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
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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.
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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!
