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cachinnate

[kak-uh-neyt] / ˈkæk əˌneɪt /


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Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it.

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

They reach at once and directly the instinctive sense of the ludicrous, and over them youth and age cachinnate together.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

She cachinnated at her absurdity, which caused Mouse to jump on top of the washer and stare at this mad woman inquisitively.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

Yes, think of Johnson not as man but a sort of personified synthesis: one between the high-minded politics of old and the cachinnating prejudices of the new bigots.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2019

Yeah, me either, but Hardwick apparently did, ’cause we can still hear her cachinnating, so I guess my job’s done.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

But this set Yarchi cachinnating worse than ever.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

It is "solitary, cruel, and untamable, digs its food out of graves," cachinnating the while like a thousand or fifteen hundred of brick.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 by Various




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