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

The autonomous vehicle launches from a carrier aircraft and conducts high-speed atmospheric tests before returning for recovery. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

The series launches as traditional TV-news organizations are all working to meet younger audiences in non-traditional platforms that often include mobile, social and digital venues. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

An announcement was made Wednesday, during the Presidents’ Challenge, the annual opening ceremony at Somerset House in London that launches the countdown and training season for the Boat Race. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026

The collaboration launches with the work of LeRoy Neiman, who is known for his expressionist depictions of sports, leisure, and other facets of Americana. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Blackmere will air early next year, a few weeks after Black Doves Season 2 starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Lancashire, which launches November 5. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026

Related Stories The format launches the prestige actors into a new era. — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026

And get your own recipes ready, as the Tribune Cookie Contest launches next week. — Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026

Amid the media ban, the administration launches a new channel. — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Noun

The launch complex was originally built in the 1960s to host launches of a different megarocket — NASA's Saturn V, which sent the Apollo moon missions skyward. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

New oil-in-serum launches from mass-market drugstore brands over the next two quarters. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

The Marine Cream predates today’s collagen skin care boom, while the Cleansing Balm has held its own through countless new launches, viral routines, and changing beauty trends. — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Consumers are becoming more attuned to, and fatigued by, the frenetic pace of new product launches. — Ellen Thomas, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026

David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied OpenAI’s major product launches, resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic arguing the company’s culture is broken. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Jonathan McDowell, a retired astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been tracking satellite launches for more than four decades. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

The Question The Card Rankings Ignore Crypto card launches are now an influencer business. — Shawn Yu, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

To realize this vision of extremely low-cost launches, SpaceX needs to be able to bring these spacecraft back from orbit, refurbish them and launch them again in short order. — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026