"laugh" Definition

Definitions for the word "laugh" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
1 make the sounds and movements usual in expressing lively amusement, scorn, etc. 2 express by laughing. 3 (foll. By at) ridicule, make fun of. n. 1 sound, act, or manner of laughing. 2 colloq. Comical thing. laugh off get rid of (embarrassment or humiliation) by joking. Laugh up one''s sleeve laugh secretly. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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