Ketched vs Retched - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between ketched and retched

is that ketched is past tense of ketch while retched is past tense of retch.

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* {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As the afoursaid boy started to run off, a well dressed lookin' man ketched him by the cote coller. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Dorothy Canfield, title=Hillsboro People, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He throwed his head back as he run, and ketched me right between his horns, like a nut in a nutcracker. }}

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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