launch | Definition of launch

launch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of launch

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

Synonyms of launch

begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, pioneer, plant, set up, start

Words Related to launch

author, father, originate

conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)

construct, put up

develop, enlarge, expand

endow, finance, fund, subsidize

arrange, organize, systematize, systemize

refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch

Near Antonyms of launch

abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify

end, finish, halt, stop, terminate

round (off or out), wind up, wrap up

Antonyms of launch

close (down), phase out, shut (up)

2 to take the first step in (a process or course of action)

she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school

Synonyms of launch

begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, kick off, lead off, open, start, strike (into)

Words Related to launch

create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate

adopt, embrace, take on, take up

establish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawn

get around (to), get down (to), get round (to)

Phrases Synonymous with launch

get going, get to, set about

Near Antonyms of launch

cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stop

close, complete

abandon, forsake, leave

abolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out

Antonyms of launch

conclude, end, finish, terminate

3 to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

infantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners

Synonyms of launch

cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, throw, toss

Words Related to launch

bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shoot

buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust

Phrases Synonymous with launch