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

Panay is known as an effusive onstage showman, making product launches a flashy, intimate affair that feels closer to Apple’s past legendary showcases than to the overwhelming Amazon events that predated him. — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

As Mayor Mamdani launches universal childcare for 2-year-olds, with the ultimate goal of free care for all young children, what do New York City parents want for their toddlers and even infants? — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026

The National Compute Grid launches to pool access to compute. — Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026

Oksana, which officially launches on October 14, will be available in typical Satenstein fashion through a live sale hosted on her social media channels; for a select group of industry insiders, there will also be a live event. — Irene Kim, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026

The company launches after a more than $10 million seed funding round that includes Hamwee himself, the venture capital firm Brand Foundry and investors including The Family Office of David Blitzer, Andy Mills, Mike Duggal and John Kline. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

For investors, that can influence how efficiently a business absorbs acquisitions, launches products, expands margins or scales service capacity. — Rahul Saluja, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Anyone applying for a first passport should continue using the existing in-person system until the State Department formally launches online first-time applications, while eligible adults who need to renew can already do so digitally. — Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Oct. 2026

The autonomous vehicle launches from a carrier aircraft and conducts high-speed atmospheric tests before returning for recovery. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

Noun

The launch complex was originally built in the 1960s to host launches of a different megarocket — NASA's Saturn V, which sent the Apollo moon missions skyward. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

New oil-in-serum launches from mass-market drugstore brands over the next two quarters. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

The Marine Cream predates today’s collagen skin care boom, while the Cleansing Balm has held its own through countless new launches, viral routines, and changing beauty trends. — Camila Quimper, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Consumers are becoming more attuned to, and fatigued by, the frenetic pace of new product launches. — Ellen Thomas, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2026

David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied OpenAI’s major product launches, resigned and published an essay in The Atlantic arguing the company’s culture is broken. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Jonathan McDowell, a retired astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been tracking satellite launches for more than four decades. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

The Question The Card Rankings Ignore Crypto card launches are now an influencer business. — Shawn Yu, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

To realize this vision of extremely low-cost launches, SpaceX needs to be able to bring these spacecraft back from orbit, refurbish them and launch them again in short order. — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026