To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.
To show or feel amusement or good humor: an experience we would laugh about later on.
To feel or express derision or contempt; mock: I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being: You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
To produce sounds resembling laughter: parrots laughing and chattering in the trees.
v.
tr.
To affect or influence by laughter: laughed the speaker off the stage; laughed the proposal down.
To say with a laugh: He laughed his delight at the victory.
n.
The act of laughing.
The sound of laughing; laughter.
Informal Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke: The solution they recommended was a laugh.
Informal Fun; amusement. Often used in the plural: went along just for laughs.
Phrasal Verb(s): laugh atTo treat lightly; scoff at: a daredevil who laughed at danger. laugh off/awayTo 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) mouthTo see one's good fortune turn to bad; suffer a humbling reversal.
Idiom(s):
laugh up/in (one's) sleeveTo 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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