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laughed down

laughed down is the simple past and past participle of laugh down.

Meaning of laugh down

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cause to cease or desist by laughter.
    • to laugh down a speaker
    Synonyms:
    outlaugh
  2. (transitive) To cause to be given up on account of ridicule.
    • to laugh down a reform

Questions about laughed down

What is laughed down the simple past and past participle of?
Laughed down is the simple past and past participle of laugh down.

Words near laughed down in the dictionary

  1. Laughead
  2. laughed
  3. laughed all the way to the bank
  4. laughed at
  5. laughed away
  6. laughed down
  7. laughed in one's sleeve
  8. laughed in someone's face
  9. laughed like a drain
  10. laughed off
  11. laughed on the other side of one's face

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laughed down (page history and authors); laugh down (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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