Laughter vs Killing - What's the difference?
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The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
(label) A reason for merriment.
That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
Devastatingly attractive.
That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 471:
an instance of someone being killed
(informal) A large amount of money.
As nouns the difference between laughter and killing
is that laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound while killing is an instance of someone being killed.As a verb killing is
.As a adjective killing is
that literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.laughter
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)- The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
- Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
killing
English
(wikipedia killing)Verb
(head)- This work is killing me.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Livia found her ‘killing ’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.
Noun
(en noun)- He made a killing on the stock market.