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- ', some adjectives for laughter꒱ ↷🖇

Smirk: Slight, often fleeting upturning of the corners of the mouth, completely voluntary and controllable;

Smile: Silent, voluntary and controllable, more perceptible than a smirk; begins to release endorphins;

Cachinnate: To laugh loudly.

Grin: Silent, controllable, but uses more facial muscles (e.g., eyes begin to narrow);

Snicker: First emergence of sound with facial muscles, but still controllable (if you hold in a snicker, it builds up gas);

Giggle: Has a 50 percent chance of reversal to avoid a full laugh; the sound of giggling is amusing; efforts to suppress it tend to increase its strength;

Chuckle: Involves chest muscles with deeper pitch;

Chortle: originates even deeper in the chest and involves muscles of the torso; usually provokes laughter in others.

Laugh: Involves facial and thoracic muscles as well as abdomen and extremities; the sound of barking or snorting;

Cackle: First involuntary stage; pitch is higher and the body begins to rock, the spine extends and flexes, with an upturning of the head;

Guffaw: Full body response; feet stomp, arms wave, thighs slapped, torso rocks, the sound is deep and loud; may result in free-flowing of tears, increased heart rate, and breathlessness; strongest solitary laughter experience;

Howl: Volume and pitch rise higher and higher and the body becomes more animated;

Shriek: Greater intensity than howl; a sense of helplessness and vulnerability;

Roar: Lose individuality; i.e., the audience roars!

Convulse: Body is completely out of control in a fit of laughter resembling a seizure; extremities flail aimlessly, balance is lost, gasp for breath, collapse or fall off the chair;

Die laughing: Instant of total helplessness; a brief, physically intense, transcendent experience; having died, we thereafter report a refreshing moment of breathlessness and exhaustion with colors more vivid and everything sparkling; everything is renewed.

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Burst out: To suddenly start laughing or crying

Collapse: If you collapse into laughter, you start laughing in an uncontrolled way

Crackup: To suddenly laugh a lot at something

Crease up: To start laughing, or to make someone laugh a lot

Die laughing: To laugh a lot

Get/have the giggles: To be unable to stop giggling

Giggly: Laughing a lot in a nervous, excited, or silly way

In fits: Laughing a lot

In hysterics: Laughing in an excited and uncontrolled way

In stitches: Laughing a lot

Kill yourself laughing: To laugh a lot

Lose it: To start laughing or crying and be unable to stop

Nearly/almost wet yourself: To

 laugh a lot

Split your sides: To laugh a lot

To dissolve into: If you dissolve into something such as tears or laughter, you begin to cry or laugh in an uncontrolled way.

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