Definition of laughter

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Laughter (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, 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. See Laugh, v. i..

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Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Laughsome :: Laughsome (a.) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry..
Ludicrous :: Ludicrous (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive..
Wholesale :: Wholesale (a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter..
Humorous :: Humorous (a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect..
Slam :: Slam (v. t.) To strike down; to slaughter.
Split :: Split (v. i.) To burst with laughter.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..
Convulse :: Convulse (v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain..
Jest :: Jest (v. i.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
Laugh :: Laugh (v. i.) 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..
Unlaugh :: Unlaugh (v. t.) To recall, as former laughter..
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Snicker :: Snicker (v. i.) To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter..
Laugh :: Laugh (v. t.) To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out..
Cachinnation :: Cachinnation (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
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