Retches vs Reaches - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between retches and reaches

is that retches is third-person singular of retch while reaches is third-person singular of reach.

plural of lang=en.

(head)

(retch)

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* (l)

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

* Byron

Here he grew inarticulate with retching .

(es)

an unsuccessful effort to

(head)

(pluralonly) The extreme limits

If we look to the nether reaches of the list, we find some anomalies.

(head)

(reach)