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v.   laughed, laugh·ing, laughs

v.   intr.
  1. To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
  2. To show or feel amusement or good humor: an experience we would laugh about later on.
    1. To feel or express derision or contempt; mock: I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
    2. To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being: You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
  3. To produce sounds resembling laughter: parrots laughing and chattering in the trees.

v.   tr.
  1. To affect or influence by laughter: laughed the speaker off the stage; laughed the proposal down.
  2. To say with a laugh: He laughed his delight at the victory.

n.  
    1. The act of laughing.
    2. The sound of laughing; laughter.
  1. Informal Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke: The solution they recommended was a laugh.
  2. Informal Fun; amusement. Often used in the plural: went along just for laughs.

Phrasal Verb(s):
laugh at
To treat lightly; scoff at: a daredevil who laughed at danger.
laugh off/away
To dismiss as ridiculously or laughably trivial: laughed off any suggestion that her career was over.

Idiom(s):
laugh out of the other side of (one's) mouth
To see one's good fortune turn to bad; suffer a humbling reversal.

Idiom(s):
laugh up/in (one's) sleeve
To rejoice or exult in secret, as at another's error or defeat.

[Middle English laughen, from Old English hlæhhan, probably ultimately of imitative origin.]

laugh'er n., laugh'ing·ly adv.
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