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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At last--and Mother Wolf’s neck bristles lifted as the time came--Father Wolf pushed “Mowgli the Frog,” as they called him, into the center, where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that glistened in the moonlight.
And laughing as they wade:
Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.
Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
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