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laugh away

laugh away verb: to dismiss (something) as unimportant.

Verb

laugh away (third-person singular simple present laughs away, present participle laughing away, simple past and past participle laughed away)

  1. (humorous, sarcastic, transitive) To dismiss (something) as unimportant.
    • laugh away the blues
    Synonyms:
    laugh off
  2. (humorous, intransitive, sarcastic) To pass the time with frivolous and amusing conversation.
    • We spent the evening just laughing away.

laugh away meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

laugh away in Tamil

சிரித்து ஓதுக்கித் தள்ளு

laugh away in Urdu

پرواہ نہ کرنا

laugh away in Kannada

ನಕ್ಕು ತಳ್ಳಿ ಹಾಕು, ತಮಾಷೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಕಾಲ ಕಳೆ, ಗಮನಾರ್ಹವೆಂದು ಗಣಿಸದಿರು

Synonyms of laugh away

Forms of laugh away

third-person singular presentlaughs away
present participlelaughing away
past participlelaughed away
pastlaughed away

Questions about laugh away

What does laugh away mean?
Laugh away means to dismiss (something) as unimportant.
What is laugh away in Tamil?
Laugh away in Tamil is சிரித்து ஓதுக்கித் தள்ளு. See Laugh away meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is laugh away?
Laugh away is a verb.
What is the past tense of laugh away?
The past tense of laugh away is laughed away.

Words near laugh away in the dictionary

  1. laugh
  2. laugh a minute
  3. laugh all the way to the bank
  4. laugh and grow fat
  5. laugh at
  6. laugh away
  7. laugh before breakfast, cry before supper
  8. laugh die me
  9. laugh down
  10. laugh in one's sleeve
  11. laugh in someone's face

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laugh away (page history and authors); laugh away (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laugh away (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); laugh away (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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