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present tense third-person singular of launch
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1
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
- after retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices
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2
to take the first step in (a process or course of action)
- she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school
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3
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
- infantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners
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launches
noun
plural of launch
Synonyms & Antonyms of launches (Entry 2 of 2)
1
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
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2
the point at which something begins
- we are at the launch of a new age of space exploration
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- alphas,
- baselines,
- beginnings,
- births,
- commencements,
- dawns,
- day ones,
- geneses,
- get-goes
- (also git-goes),
- inceptions,
- incipiences,
- incipiencies,
- kickoffs,
- mornings,
- nascences,
- nascencies,
- onsets,
- outsets,
- starts,
- thresholds
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- cradles,
- fountainheads,
- fountains,
- germs,
- origins,
- roots,
- seedbeds,
- sources,
- springs,
- wells,
- wellsprings
- advents,
- appearances,
- arrivals,
- debuts
- (also débuts),
- emergences
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