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 Patriot system tracks the missile, predicts its path and launches within minutes, all while carrying out complex calculations to ensure the interceptor finds its target. — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 27 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

The telescope will get off the ground and be propelled into space from the historic Launch Complex 39A – the site of many Apollo moon mission launches – at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

John Seakwood—Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images Advertisement Dolly Parton launches Imagination Library, her children's literacy scheme, at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

That continuity may help lead the FromSoftware faithful into this unknown when the game launches later this year. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Starship currently launches only from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Jacobsen, after interrogating scientific and security experts around the world, has imagined an accident at a Siberian lab that launches a runaway outbreak. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 19 Aug. 2026

Noun

That could give carrier air wings a hypersonic weapon designed for rapid launches against distant targets. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026

The new Space Age looks to be shifting into top gear as SpaceX signs an agreement with the state of Louisiana for the company to invest US$100 billion to build the world's largest spaceport that could conduct over 10,000 launches per year. — David Szondy august 25, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026

Crank it up to Qualify mode—to unleash the full power of the EV components—and the 849 launches forward with rocket-like thrust. — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 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

This expansion follows successful product launches and previous marketing efforts. — John Archer, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

More recently, the Air Jordan 17 has received a considerable amount of attention from the brand with numerous limited-edition low-top launches and a popular 2025 collaboration with Infinite Archives. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026