Laugh vs. Bray — What's the Difference?

To express certain emotions, especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements.

To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

To show or feel amusement or good humor

To sound loudly and harshly

To feel or express derision or contempt; mock

To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly.

To feel a triumphant or exultant sense of well-being

To crush and pound to a fine consistency, as in a mortar.

To produce sounds resembling laughter

To spread (ink) thinly over a surface.

To affect or influence by laughter

The loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

To say with a laugh

A sound resembling that of a donkey

The act of laughing.

(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.

The sound of laughing; laughter.

To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.

(Informal) Something amusing, absurd, or contemptible; a joke

(transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.

Often laughs(Informal) Fun; amusement

To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

To hit (someone or something).

Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.

A fun person.

(by extension) Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound.

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.

(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.

(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

The cry of an ass

To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Braying characteristic of donkeys

To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.

Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;

The sound of laughing

Laugh loudly and harshly

A facial expression characteristic of a person laughing;

A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;

Produce laughter