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lachen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • laugh verb To make the sound and facial movements that show amusement or delight.
  • laughing adj Making the sound or expression of laughter.
  • laughter noun The sound or act of laughing.

Senses

lachen is used for these senses in English:

  • 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, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
  • laughing The action of the verb to laugh.
  • laughter A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.

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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