Idiom
burst out laughing
Meaning
To start laughing suddenly and intensely.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He burst out laughing when he saw the funny video.”
“During the serious meeting, she suddenly burst out laughing after remembering a silly joke from earlier that morning.”
“Despite the solemn atmosphere of the library, the student burst out laughing upon reading the absurd passage in his old textbook.”
Examples
simple
“He burst out laughing when he saw the funny video.”
contextual
“During the serious meeting, she suddenly burst out laughing after remembering a silly joke from earlier that morning.”
complex
“Despite the solemn atmosphere of the library, the student burst out laughing upon reading the absurd passage in his old textbook.”
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