Synonyms of launches

launches 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of launch

1

as in founds

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

• founds
• establishes
• initiates
• introduces
• creates
• inaugurates
• begins
• institutes
• pioneers
• starts
• plants
• constitutes
• organizes
• innovates
• originates
• invents
• constructs
• develops
• sets up
• produces
• manufactures
• devises
• authors
• fathers
• conceives
• expands
• thinks (up)
• cooks (up)
• concocts
• contrives
• enlarges
• relaunches
• arranges
• subsidizes
• funds
• fabricates
• endows
• finances
• makes up
• systematizes
• reinitiates
• reinstitutes
• systemizes
• refounds
• puts up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closes (down)
• shuts (up)
• abolishes
• stops
• ends
• finishes
• nullifies
• annihilates
• halts
• terminates
• annuls
• phases out
• rounds (off or out)
• winds up
• wraps up

2

as in begins

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

• begins
• commences
• starts
• opens
• falls (to)
• creates
• enters (into or upon)
• strikes (into)
• initiates
• embarks (on or upon)
• gets going
• generates
• gets off
• organizes
• leads off
• gets to
• adopts
• inaugurates
• kicks off
• sets about
• invents
• establishes
• originates
• founds
• innovates
• spawns
• institutes
• fathers
• embraces
• takes on
• takes up
• gets down (to)
• sets up
• gets around (to)
• pioneers
• gets round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ends
• concludes
• finishes
• terminates
• stops
• ceases
• halts
• completes
• closes
• discontinues
• quits
• leaves
• abandons
• lays off
• destroys
• desists
• forsakes
• abolishes
• knocks off
• extinguishes
• demolishes
• exterminates
• phases out

3

as in throws

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

• throws
• hurls
• tosses
• flings
• fires
• casts
• catapults
• slings
• heaves
• bowls
• lobs
• pitches
• flips
• pegs
• hurtles
• dashes
• lets fly
• lofts
• guns
• chucks
• propels
• passes
• rolls
• darts
• thrusts
• shoots
• ejects
• pelts
• precipitates
• projects
• hooks
• rifles
• impels
• bucks

launches

2 of 2

noun

plural of launch

1

as in takeoffs

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 space shuttle's launch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• takeoffs
• liftoffs
• blastoffs
• ascents

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• landings
• crashes
• splashdowns

2

as in starts

the point at which something begins

we are at the launch of a new age of space exploration

Synonyms & Similar Words

• starts
• beginnings
• commencements
• inceptions
• alphas
• onsets
• dawns
• geneses
• thresholds
• day ones
• outsets
• baselines
• kickoffs
• births
• incipiencies
• incipiences
• nascencies
• originations
• mornings
• inaugurations
• infancies
• debuts
• nascences
• initiations
• get-goes
• drawing boards
• origins
• ground zeros
• first bases
• cradles
• arrivals
• square ones
• openings
• springs
• fountains
• sources
• creations
• institutions
• emergences
• germs
• wells
• fountainheads
• advents
• appearances
• roots
• wellsprings
• childhoods
• seedbeds
• youths

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ends
• closes
• conclusions
• endings
• stops
• finishes
• periods
• closures
• completions
• closings
• terminations
• omegas
• cessations
• finales
• windups

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of launches

Verb

Mingyue, the all-day restaurant, launches individual Sichuan hot pot in December. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2026

The client is satisfied, the program launches and everybody seems happy. — David James, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Blue Origin was also supposed to have begun Amazon Leo launches this year with its New Glenn rocket, but an explosion at Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 damaged the pad and New Glenn won’t fly again until 2027. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026

The Coady Work Jean launches in two fits, Athletic Straight and Boot Cut, and two washes, Light Stone and Dark Blue. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026

Nvidia on Thursday appointed Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as its interim CEO, as the company launches a search for a permanent chief executive. — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2026

Scott Mason, formerly of WRAL’s Tar Heel Traveler segment, launches a new venture to continue storytelling in North Carolina. — Autumn Coleman, Charlotte Observer, 12 Nov. 2026

Anything that launches aboard a rocket is limited by the size of that vehicle's fairing — the nose cone that protects payloads during their ride to space. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026

JioHotstar remains in business with Johar, with Student of the Year, a TV spin-off of the 2012 film set within modern youth culture, launches this month. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

Noun

SpaceX, the Pentagon’s leading launch provider, has stopped taking commercial orders for Falcon 9 launches after 2028 as the company shifts its focus to the next-generation, super-heavy-lift Starship rocket. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 10 Nov. 2026

Still, the lake remained just over a quarter full, and 15 of its 17 boat launches remained unusable as of Friday. — Wufei Yu, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026

Inside the classified mission USSF-432 is part of a series of national security launches associated with the Space Force. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026

North Korea took serious offense to this and subsequently stepped up its missile launches. — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2026

Management identified improving full-price sales, particularly in North America, as a priority and said it was encouraged by the initial response to recent product launches. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026

The release marks one of the biggest Pokémon Trading Card Game launches of the year, with some boxes already listed online for hundreds of dollars above their retail price. — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026

The impact of rocket launches, triggered by the supersonic flight of the rocket body through the high-altitude air, is much more short-lived. — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Though Falcon 9 has been profitable, SpaceX’s business interests have been especially buoyed by Starlink, and the company is banking on the uncertain prospect of data centers in orbit, which would create yet more demand for Starship launches. — Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026