Difference between indulge and laugh
Definitions
verb
- yield (to); give satisfaction to
- enjoy to excess
- give free rein to
- treat with excessive indulgence
Examples
This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence.
His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures.
Definitions
verb
- produce laughter
noun
- a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- the sound of laughing
Examples
The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories.
Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/
