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View synonyms for dry heave

dry heave

or dry-heave

[ drahy heev ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to make an involuntary effort to vomit, but without bringing anything up; retch:

    I dry heave every time I think back to that awful incident.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of dry heave1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

The water monster began to dry heave.

But the delicacy of Toossi’s development handily makes up for both problems, especially the hysteria of lifeboat melodrama; in a recent interview in The New York Times, she told my colleague Alexis Soloski that “writing a trauma play makes me want to dry heave.”

But writing a trauma play makes me want to dry heave.

“Conventions were a center of my life for a while, and now the idea of being in a vendor hall with that many people makes me want to dry heave,” she said.

“Seinfeld” cast members Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander were among several who noticed similarities between the president’s convulsive movements and Elaine’s infamous party dance, which Alexander’s George described on the show as a “full-body dry heave set to music.”

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