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laughing with

laughing with is the present participle and gerund of laugh with.

Meaning of laugh with

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see laugh, with.
  2. (transitive) To laugh along with someone in a friendly way; to laugh at someone's jokes; to enjoy humor in a way that is friendly and enjoyable to the person responsible for the humor; usually contrasted with laugh at.

Questions about laughing with

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

Words near laughing with in the dictionary

  1. laughing to scorn
  2. laughing turtle dove
  3. laughing turtle doves
  4. laughing up one's sleeve
  5. laughing water
  6. laughing with
  7. laughing-eyed
  8. laughing-gas
  9. laughing-gear
  10. laughing-stock
  11. laughing-stocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laughing with (page history and authors); laugh with (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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