Retch
Retch (rech or rēch; 277) , intransitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon hracan to clear the throat, hawk, from hraca throat; akin to German rachen, and perhaps to English rack neck.]
To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching!
(Here he grew inarticulate with retching.)
Retch , verb, transitive and intransitive
[See Reck.]
To care for; to heed; to reck. [Obsolete] — Chaucer