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launch

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of launch

1 a rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket)
  • The reporters held their collective breath as they silently watched the rocket's launch.
Synonyms of launch

blastoff, liftoff, takeoff
Words Related to launch

ascent
Near Antonyms of launch

crash

splashdown
Antonyms of launch

landing
2 the point at which something begins
  • We are at the launch of a new age of space exploration.
Synonyms of launch

alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold
Words Related to launch

drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one

creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination

cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring

dawning, opening

advent, appearance, arrival, debut (also début), emergence

childhood, infancy, youth
Near Antonyms of launch

cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup
Antonyms of launch

close, conclusion, end, ending, omega

launch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of launch

1 to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
  • After retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices.
Synonyms of launch

begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, pioneer, plant, set up, start
Words Related to launch

author, father, originate

conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)

construct, put up

develop, enlarge, expand

endow, finance, fund, subsidize

arrange, organize, systematize
Near Antonyms of launch

abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify

end, finish, halt, stop, terminate

round (off or out), wind up, wrap up
Antonyms of launch

close (down), phase out, shut (up)
2 to take the first step in (a process or course of action)
  • She launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school.
Synonyms of launch

begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, kick off, lead off, open, start, strike (into)
Words Related to launch

create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate

adopt, embrace, take on, take up

establish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawn

get around (to), get down (to), get round (to)
Phrases Synonymous with launch

get going, get to, set about
Near Antonyms of launch

cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stop

close, complete

abandon, forsake, leave

abolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out
Antonyms of launch

conclude, end, finish, terminate
3 to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
  • The javelin thrower launched his spear.
Synonyms of launch

cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, throw, toss
Words Related to launch

bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shoot

buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust
Phrases Synonymous with launch

let fly

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