dry-heave
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
dry-heave (third-person singular simple present dry-heaves, present participle dry-heaving, simple past and past participle dry-heaved)
Translations[edit]
attempt to vomit with the ejection of only gas
Noun[edit]
dry-heave (plural dry-heaves)
- An attempt to vomit that ejects only gas.
- 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8:
- She spent three days in the college infirmary trying to contain her overwhelming feelings of nausea and despair. Every morning for months, she would awake with the dry heaves.