laugh
/læf/ verb A1- 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. · There were many laughing children running on the school grounds.
- To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock. · Don't laugh at my new hat, man!
- To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
- To express by, or utter with, laughter.
Plural laugh · He/she/it laughs · Past laughed · Past participle laughed · -ing form laughing
Verb forms
- Base form
- laugh
- He/she/it
- laughs
- Past
- laughed
- Past participle
- laughed
- -ing form
- laughing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap.
She ate a hearty breakfast, and watched a wee Munchkin baby, who played with Toto and pulled his tail and crowed and laughed in a way that greatly amused Dorothy.
When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
Uncle Henry never laughed.
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