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- laugh out of
laugh out of
laugh someone out of something
to force someone to leave a place by laughing in ridicule. The citizens laughed the speaker out of the hall. We laughed the city council out of the auditorium.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Aesop | | EE-sahp (English) | Ancient Greek (Anglicized) |
| Nigul | | - | Estonian |
| Katsurou | | kah-tsoo-ṙo: | Japanese |
| Orlando | | [ɔ:'lændəu] | |
| Octavia | | ahk-TAYV-ee-ə (English) | English, Spanish, Ancient Roman |
| Gervasius | | - | Ancient Germanic (Latinized) |