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

Uber in London The ridesharing app launches autonomous vehicle rides in London on Thursday. — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

The Donna Karan New York campaign launches Wednesday across all Donna Karan New York social channels, featuring Jenner. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026

The openings come the same month the company launches its 2026 fall menu, which includes an Apple Butter Chai, a Caramel Apple Pie Macchiato and a Pumpkin Roll Shake. — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Versioning, monitoring and traceability can't stop when a system launches. — Atul Sabharwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

The one-day festival, which raised $10 million for nonprofits supporting women and girls, arrives just weeks before Rodrigo launches her Unraveled Tour. — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2026

Rocket launches with a southeast trajectory can be seen as far south as West Palm Beach, Florida, which is about 150 miles south of Cape Canaveral (about a two-hour-and-20-minute car ride). — Lianna Norman, Florida Times-Union, 28 Aug. 2026

The council launches as New York City employment sits near a record high. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

As Washington launches its latest plan to cripple Iran’s economy, the Islamic Republic has threatened a regional and global response designed to raise the stakes for the United States and the world. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Noun

Reuters Meta's $18 billion social media settlement lifts a legal overhang that some analysts say could clear the way for a wave of new AI product launches. — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

As of now, schedules for most rocket launches can be hard to come by, with specific missions and target windows often not made public very far in advance. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

The missions will fly as rideshare payloads, with Helogen working with D-Orbit on one of the launches. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

On Wednesday morning, Spirit of Boise organizers announced on Instagram that balloon launches were canceled for the first day of the festival, which is Kid’s Day. — Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026

Its subsequent launches picked up on the theme and ran with it, and its latest build takes the most extreme tack yet. — New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026

The Louisiana site could support thousands of launches each year, the news release said. — Stephen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

The overwhelming majority of such launches achieve little economic value and almost all of them collapse to near zero. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

The Falcon 9 has now flown 101 times so far in 2026, and 78 of those launches have been Starlink missions. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026