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| emotion |
a strong feeling or subjective response such as joy, hatred, or love, sometimes accompanied by involuntary physical changes such as increased pulse or by activity such as crying, laughing, or trembling. [1/3 definitions] |
| in stitches |
(informal) laughing uncontrollably. |
| in the aisles |
laughing uncontrollably. |
| laugh |
to drive or otherwise move (someone) by laughing derisively. [3/6 definitions] |
| laughter |
the act or sound of laughing. [1/2 definitions] |
| nitrous oxide |
a colorless, nonflammable, inorganic gas with a sweet taste and smell, used as an anesthetic; laughing gas. |
| set off |
to make (someone) start laughing, crying, complaining, yelling or the like without restraint. [1/5 definitions] |
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