[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.Synonyms: titter , snigger , snicker , giggle , roar , guffaw , cachinnate , cackle , chortle", "to experience the emotion so expressed:He laughed inwardly at the scene.", "to produce a sound resembling human laughter :A coyote laughed in the dark."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to drive, put, bring, etc., by or with laughter (often followed byout, away, down,etc.):They laughed him out of town. We laughed away our troubles.", "to utter with laughter:He laughed his consent."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or sound of laughing; laughter.", "an expression of mirth, derision, etc., by laughing.", "Informal.something that provokes laughter, amusement, or ridicule:After all the advance publicity, the prizefight turned out to be a laugh.", "laughs,Informal.fun; amusement."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to make fun of; deride; ridicule:They were laughing at him, not along with him.to be scornful of; reject:They stopped laughing at the unusual theory when it was found to be predictive.to find sympathetic amusement in; regard with humor:We can learn to laugh a little at even our most serious foibles.", "to make fun of; deride; ridicule:They were laughing at him, not along with him.", "to be scornful of; reject:They stopped laughing at the unusual theory when it was found to be predictive.", "to find sympathetic amusement in; regard with humor:We can learn to laugh a little at even our most serious foibles.", "to dismiss as ridiculous, trivial, or hollow:He had received threats but laughed them off as the work of a crank."]}]