laugh
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1. laugh - Noun
2. laugh - Verb
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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.
Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
It is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes.
When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
If you rush things, you'll just make others laugh.