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LAUGHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness
Example:
laughing children
Synonyms:
laughing; riant
Classified under:
Similar:
happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb laugh
Context examples:
It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Then she dropped her eyes, to lift them again, laughing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Our people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was laughing with his red mouth; the sharp white teeth glinted in the moonlight when he turned to look back over the belt of trees, to where the dogs were barking.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He saw Spitz run out his scarlet tongue in a way he had of laughing; and he saw François, swinging an axe, spring into the mess of dogs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There was never much laughing in his presence; or, if there is any difference, it is not more, I think, than such an absence has a tendency to produce at first.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“I am very much obliged to you,” said Emma, laughing again.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But the driver had already climbed back into his perch, laughing as loudly as any of his companions.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Mr. Palmer does not hear me," said she, laughing; "he never does sometimes. It is so ridiculous!"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
