Synonyms of launching

launching

verb

present participle of launch

1

as in establishing

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

• establishing
• founding
• initiating
• introducing
• pioneering
• creating
• instituting
• inaugurating
• beginning
• starting
• planting
• constructing
• constituting
• organizing
• originating
• innovating
• developing
• inventing
• producing
• devising
• setting up
• manufacturing
• authoring
• expanding
• conceiving
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• concocting
• funding
• financing
• enlarging
• fathering
• subsidizing
• relaunching
• making up
• arranging
• contriving
• fabricating
• endowing
• systematizing
• reinitiating
• reinstituting
• putting up
• refounding
• systemizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• shutting (up)
• abolishing
• finishing
• phasing out
• stopping
• ending
• terminating
• halting
• nullifying
• annihilating
• annulling
• winding up
• wrapping up
• rounding (off or out)

2

as in beginning

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

• beginning
• commencing
• starting
• opening
• creating
• falling (to)
• initiating
• entering (into or upon)
• striking (into)
• embarking (on or upon)
• getting off
• generating
• organizing
• getting to
• establishing
• adopting
• originating
• inaugurating
• leading off
• inventing
• getting going
• kicking off
• setting about
• instituting
• founding
• spawning
• pioneering
• innovating
• embracing
• taking up
• taking on
• fathering
• setting up
• getting around (to)
• getting down (to)
• getting round (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• finishing
• ending
• terminating
• stopping
• concluding
• completing
• discontinuing
• halting
• closing
• ceasing
• quitting
• laying off
• leaving
• abandoning
• destroying
• abolishing
• knocking off
• forsaking
• desisting
• extinguishing
• demolishing
• exterminating
• phasing out

3

as in throwing

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

• throwing
• hurling
• tossing
• flinging
• slinging
• firing
• casting
• catapulting
• pitching
• lobbing
• chucking
• pegging
• heaving
• hurtling
• pelting
• bowling
• dashing
• lofting
• gunning
• darting
• flipping
• rolling
• letting fly
• propelling
• precipitating
• thrusting
• projecting
• hooking
• ejecting
• shooting
• passing
• bucking
• impelling
• rifling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of launching

The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday less than three months after launching on the bold mission. — Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026

Rocket Lab has committed to launching the entirety of Synspective’s Strix constellation, which aims to deliver 30 spacecraft to LEO by the end of the decade. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Wholesale is up 20 percent with partners including Moda Operandi, Fwrd, Shopbop and Nordstrom, and the brand will be launching on Net-a-porter in October. — Emily Mercer, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026

The comments led to the Israeli-American Council launching a petition to have Macklemore removed from the tour. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026

Unlike closing a sale or launching a product or even interacting directly with a customer, their impact is often less visible. — Petr Marek, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Still, there are good reasons Trump may be holding back, not least to avoid opening a potentially painful second front, just seven months after launching his damaging and ongoing conflict with Iran. — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

The five- to seven-minute works will honor LACO’s roots as an artistic outlet for Hollywood studio musicians while launching concerts with bright, light energy. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Russia is also believed to have been responsible for launching a drone that was shot down by NATO fighter jets over Lithuanian airspace this week. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026