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Outlaugh

Outlaugh \Out*laugh"\, v. t.

  1. To surpass or outdo in laughing.
    --Dryden.

  2. To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. [R.]

    His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity.
    --Franklin.

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outlaugh

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing. 2 (context transitive English) To laugh louder than, surpass in laughing.

Usage examples of "outlaugh".

Colney had to be overcome afresh, and he fled, but managed, with two or three of his bitter phrases, to make a cuttle-fish fight of it, that oppressively shadowed his vanquisher: The Daniel Lambert of Cities: the Female Annuitant of Nations:--and such like, wretched stuff, proper to Colney Durance, easily dispersed and outlaughed when we have our vigour.