English Dictionary

laugh

/laːf/

verb

(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.

She couldn't help but laugh at his joke.

意味（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.

But there was ſuch laughing, Queen Hecuba laught that her eyes ran ore.

意味（2）

(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

The green ſtem grows in ſtature and in ſize, / But only feeds with hope the farmer's eyes; / Then laughs the childiſh year with flow'rets crowned, / And laviſhly prefumes the fields around, / But no ſubſtantial nouriſhment receives, / Infirm the ſtalks, unſolid are the leaves.

意味（3）

(intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

No Wit to flatter, left of all his ſtore! / No Fool to laugh at, which he valued more. / There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, / And fame, this lord of uſeleſs, thouſands ends.

意味（4）

(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Will you laugh me aſleepe, for I am very heauy.

意味（5）

(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

From his deepe cheſt laughes out a lowd applauſe, …