Adjacent Words
To knock outTo knock under
To knock up
To know how
To know of
To know one's own limitations
To knuckle to
To lap boards
To lap timbers
To lash out
To lattice up
To laugh at
To laugh away
To laugh down
To laugh in the sleeve
To laugh out
To laugh out of the other corner
To laugh to scorn
To lay a fault misfortune etc at one's door
To lay a ship aboard
To lay a venue
To lay about
To lay about one
To lay an ambush
To lay an anchor to the windward
To lay asleep
To lay at
To lay bare
To lay before
To lay by
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Laugh Laugh, v. t. 1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? --Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. --Shak. 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. --Shak. To laugh away. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. ``Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.'' --Shak. To laugh down. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker. (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform. To laugh one out of, to cause one by laughter or ridicule to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose. To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise.
