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EXPRESS JOY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does express joy mean?

• EXPRESS JOY (verb)
The verb EXPRESS JOY has 1 sense:

1. produce laughter

Familiarity information: EXPRESS JOY used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EXPRESS JOY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Produce laughter

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

express joy; express mirth; laugh

Hypernyms (to "express joy" is one way to...):

express emotion; express feelings (give verbal or other expression to one's feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "express joy"):

bray (laugh loudly and harshly)

convulse (be overcome with laughter)

chortle; chuckle; laugh softly (laugh quietly or with restraint)

guffaw; laugh loudly (laugh boisterously)

cackle (emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing)

break up; crack up (laugh unrestrainedly)

giggle; titter (laugh nervously)

snicker; snigger (laugh quietly)

howl; roar (laugh unrestrainedly and heartily)

bellylaugh (laugh a deep, hearty laugh)

cachinnate (laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way)

Sentence frames:

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