laughed
- 1Simple past and past participle of laugh.
The whole audience laughed throughout the comedian's opening set.
He has laughed about that embarrassing slip ever since it happened.
Note
Because the verb also works transitively, this form can turn passive: a speaker is laughed off the stage, a proposal laughed out of the room, a clumsy rival laughed at. Two transitive patterns are worth knowing: laughing someone into or out of something, and laughing a reply (she laughed her thanks). In older English, a landscape that laughed was bright and lively, a figurative use now obsolete.
The proposal was laughed out of the committee room within minutes.
She laughed her thanks and waved from the doorway.
laughed is a form of laugh
laugh, verb: To express amusement, satisfaction, or scorn through movement of the face and explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat. Full entry
- Spelling
- laugh → laughed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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