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nauraa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.

Senses

nauraa is used for these senses in English:

  • crack up (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily.
  • have a laugh To laugh.
  • laugh An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
  • laugh (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.
  • laugh (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
  • laugh (intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
  • laugh (transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
  • laugh (transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

laugh — full definition

  1. verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
  2. noun The act or sound of laughing.
  3. noun Something that causes amusement; a source of fun.

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