Synonyms of launches

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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

While the official list of final contenders remains under wraps as the city screens the entries, the public will get its first look at the proposals when the survey launches Saturday. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

And tomorrow night after the World Cup semifinal, Fox launches Nation’s Dumbest in the States with Jack Whitehall presenting. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Former president of Tesla Jon McNeill, who now runs DVx Ventures, a venture capital firm that launches its own start-ups, told me that, before AI agents, the firm’s companies required about $6 million to $8 million in initial funding. — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 14 July 2026

Meanwhile, Sacramento launches curbside garbage inspections, and a beloved Oak Park ice cream shop announces its closing. — Ruyuan Li. Summary Produced By Ai Assistance, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026

The company's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket launches several times a month, and is routinely recovered, refurbished and reflown within a short few weeks. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 July 2026

Check out our hands-on impressions of the laptop linked above for more of the nitty-gritty details before the Surface Laptop Ultra launches later this fall. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026

To be fair to Roh, when Apple launches its first foldable this fall as it’s expected to do, Samsung will be on its eighth generation of the form factor. — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Amazon purchased the nine Atlas V launches from ULA in 2021, scooping up all of the launch provider’s unsold Atlas Vs as the program started winding down in favor of ULA’s Vulcan launch vehicle. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

Noun

According to Parsons, this will support the bank’s forecast for four commercial launches this year and 1,588 flights in 2031. — Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 15 July 2026

As Rocket Lab continues with regular launches of its workhorse small-lift Electron rocket, development of Neutron has carried on in the background, progressing toward a possible debut later this year. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 July 2026

More than half rely on at least nine vendors and tools to complete a single campaign, and 88% say C-suite approval bottlenecks delay launches. — Jamie Garverick, Fortune, 15 July 2026

Assuming a five-year lifetime, putting the 1-million satellite constellation into orbit and then replenishing it over time would require thousands of launches per year. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

The excitement could continue to grow if NASA can maintain its aspirational mission manifest of 79 launches and 73 lunar landings between now and 2036. — Clive Neal, The Conversation, 14 July 2026

Foreo is hitting both ends of the beauty tech market with its launches, in addition to a foray into wellness. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 14 July 2026

Most people picture rocket launches and astronaut missions, where SpaceX's dominance speaks for itself. — Charlotte Kiang, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026

Unlike conventional launches that depend on nearby naval vessels or coastal infrastructure, the new method allows crews to insert an uncrewed boat directly into contested or hard-to-reach waters. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026