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laughing down

laughing down is the present participle and gerund 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 laughing down

What is laughing down the present participle and gerund of?
Laughing down is the present participle and gerund of laugh down.

Words near laughing down in the dictionary

  1. laughing clown
  2. laughing clowns
  3. laughing death
  4. laughing dove
  5. laughing doves
  6. laughing down
  7. laughing falcon
  8. laughing falcons
  9. laughing gas
  10. laughing gear
  11. laughing geese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laughing 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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