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laugh
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laugh  (lf, läf)
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.
3.
a. To feel or express derision or contempt; mock: I had to laugh when I saw who my opponent was.
b. To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being: You won't be laughing when the truth comes out.
4. 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.
a. The act of laughing.
b. The sound of laughing; laughter.
2. Informal Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke: The solution they recommended was a laugh.
3. Informal Fun; amusement. Often used in the plural: went along just for laughs.
Phrasal Verbs:
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.
Idioms:
laugh out of the other side of (one's) mouth
To see one's good fortune turn to bad; suffer a humbling reversal.
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.]

laugher n.
laughing·ly adv.

laugh [lɑːf]
vb
1. (intr) to express or manifest emotion, esp mirth or amusement, typically by expelling air from the lungs in short bursts to produce an inarticulate voiced noise, with the mouth open
2. (intr) (esp of certain mammals or birds) to make a noise resembling a laugh
3. (tr) to utter or express with laughter he laughed his derision at the play
4. (tr) to bring or force (someone, esp oneself) into a certain condition by laughter he laughed himself sick
5. (intr; foll by at) to make fun (of); jeer (at)
6. (intr; foll by over) to read or discuss something with laughter
don't make me laugh Informal I don't believe you for a moment
laugh all the way to the bank Informal to be unashamedly pleased at making a lot of money
laugh in a person's face to show open contempt or defiance towards a person
laugh like a drain Informal to laugh loudly and coarsely
laugh up one's sleeve to laugh or have grounds for amusement, self-satisfaction, etc., secretly
laugh on the other side of one's face to show sudden disappointment or shame after appearing cheerful or confident
be laughing Informal to be in a favourable situation
n
1. the act or an instance of laughing
2. a manner of laughter
3. Informal a person or thing that causes laughter that holiday was a laugh
the last laugh the final success in an argument, situation, etc., after previous defeat See also laugh away, laugh down, laugh off
[Old English læhan, hliehhen; related to Gothic hlahjan, Dutch lachen]
laugher  n
laughing  n & adj
laughingly  adv

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