'To laugh down' definitions:
Definition of 'To laugh down'
From: GCIDE
- Laugh \Laugh\, v. t.
- 1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. [1913 Webster]
- Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I shall laugh myself to death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. [1913 Webster]
- From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To laugh away. (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret. (b) To waste in hilarity. "Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune." --Shak.
- To laugh down. (a) To cause to cease or desist by laughter; as, to laugh down a speaker. (b) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule; as, to laugh down a reform.
- To laugh one out of, to cause one by laughter or ridicule to abandon or give up; as, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose.
- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To laugh down'
- Laugh,
- Laughed,
- Laughing,
- Laughingly,
- To laugh at,
- To laugh out,
- laugh at,
- laugh it up,
- laugh off,
- Laughing falcon,
- Laughing gas,
- Laughing goose,
- Laughing gull,
- Laughing hyena,
- Laughing jackass,
- Laughing owl,
- Sardonic laugh,
- To laugh away,
- To laugh in the sleeve,
- To laugh one out of,
- To laugh to scorn,
- belly laugh,
- last laugh,
- laugh away,
- laugh line,
- laugh loudly,
- laugh softly,
- laugh track,
- laughing bird,
- To laugh out of the other corner of the mouth,
- To laugh out of the other side of the mouth,
- To laugh up one's sleeve,
- belly-laugh