Definition of Laugh

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Definition of Laugh

Laugh

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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Laugh Quotations

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Maya Angelou

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Laugh Translations

laugh in Afrikaans is lag
laugh in Danish is le
laugh in Dutch is lachen
laugh in Finnish is nauraa
laugh in French is riez, rire, riions, rient
laugh in German is lache, lachen, lachen
laugh in Italian is ridere
laugh in Latin is rideo risi risum
laugh in Norwegian is latter, le
laugh in Portuguese is riso, rir
laugh in Swedish is skratt, skratta

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