Word.ws English Dictionary

laughs away

laughs away is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh away.

Meaning of laugh away

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.

Questions about laughs away

What is laughs away the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Laughs away is the third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh away.

Words near laughs away in the dictionary

  1. laughometer
  2. laughometers
  3. laughs
  4. laughs all the way to the bank
  5. laughs at
  6. laughs away
  7. laughs down
  8. laughs in one's sleeve
  9. laughs in someone's face
  10. laughs like a drain
  11. laughs off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: laughs away (page history and authors); laugh away (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “laughs away.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/laughs_away. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.