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What is the verb for laugh?

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laugh
  1. (intransitive) 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.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, figuratively) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
  3. (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
  4. (transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
  5. (transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Kamila would then laugh in a way that sane people do not laugh, creeping many people out in the process.”
      “Legend has it that many would laugh at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.”
laff
  1. (humorous) Alternative spelling of laugh
laughing
laughe
  1. Archaic spelling of laugh.
laughs
laugheth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of laugh
laffs
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laff
laughest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of laugh
laught
  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of laugh
  2. Examples:
    1. “We want to use our artists talents to make people laught and impress them at the same time.”
      “They Were eating their eggs at the bar, when they laught for twenty minutes front of a so old mirror, that it was showing two laughing clowns.”
      “Two children out of the twenty didn't laught at all.”
laughed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of laugh
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Everyone laughed and chatted as they passed the dishes, a soft breeze from the ocean wafting up the mountainside.”
      “He laughed and wandered farther down Moonglow Road until he came to a lone house on the deserted street.”
      “Money meant that no one laughed behind her back when she called magazines books.”
laffed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of laff
laughen
  1. obsolete past participle of laugh.
laffing
  1. present participle of laff
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