Synonyms of launched

launched

verb

past tense of launch

1

as in founded

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 & Similar Words

• founded
• established
• initiated
• pioneered
• introduced
• created
• instituted
• began
• inaugurated
• started
• planted
• constituted
• originated
• organized
• constructed
• developed
• innovated
• invented
• set up
• devised
• produced
• authored
• conceived
• manufactured
• funded
• expanded
• thought (up)
• concocted
• financed
• cooked (up)
• made up
• fathered
• enlarged
• relaunched
• arranged
• contrived
• fabricated
• endowed
• subsidized
• systematized
• reinstituted
• reinitiated
• refounded
• put up
• systemized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closed (down)
• shut (up)
• ended
• stopped
• abolished
• finished
• terminated
• halted
• phased out
• nullified
• annulled
• annihilated
• rounded (off or out)
• wrapped up
• wound up

2

as in began

to take the first step in (a process or course of action)

she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• began
• commenced
• started
• opened
• created
• fell (to)
• initiated
• entered (into or upon)
• embarked (on or upon)
• struck (into)
• set about
• got off
• got to
• adopted
• generated
• originated
• established
• founded
• organized
• inaugurated
• invented
• got going
• led off
• kicked off
• instituted
• pioneered
• spawned
• innovated
• embraced
• took up
• took on
• fathered
• set up
• got down (to)
• got around (to)
• got round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ended
• concluded
• finished
• terminated
• stopped
• completed
• ceased
• halted
• discontinued
• laid off
• closed
• left
• quit
• abandoned
• destroyed
• knocked off
• desisted
• abolished
• demolished
• extinguished
• forsook
• exterminated
• phased out

3

as in threw

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

infantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• threw
• hurled
• tossed
• flung
• slung
• fired
• pegged
• catapulted
• pitched
• heaved
• lobbed
• cast
• dashed
• hurtled
• let fly
• chucked
• lofted
• bowled
• flipped
• darted
• pelted
• rolled
• propelled
• passed
• gunned
• precipitated
• hooked
• ejected
• projected
• thrust
• impelled
• shot
• rifled
• bucked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of launched

Khamenei was killed along with several members of his family in an airstrike as the US and Israel launched their war with Iran on February 28. — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Legend shares a staggering scale with its two sister ships – Icon of the Seas launched in 2024, and Star of the Seas last year – but features a number of new and reimagined venues and activities. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 6 July 2026

The event organizers were largely aligned with the White House, supplanting a bipartisan organization that was launched by Congress a decade ago. — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

An unstoppable force of negativity, something that lasted until Anthropic launched Project Glasswing , which showed the desperate nature of a level of cybersecurity only CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks had. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 July 2026

Styles launched his solo career in 2017 and has since released four studio albums. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

The comments mark an escalation in the White House’s rhetoric after Iran first launched drone attacks at four commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. — Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2026

The first merges Birkenstock’s first-ever sandal, the one-strap Madrid from 1963, featured with the Big Buckle, and is merged with its successor, the Arizona sandal launched in 1973 and defined by the brand’s original square buckles. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 28 June 2026

In a post on X, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the operation was launched in response to multiple militant attacks across the country. — CBS News, 28 June 2026