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launchnoun 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 blastoff, liftoff, takeoff ascent landing crashsplashdown the point at which something beginswe are at the launch of a new age of space exploration alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go(also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold drawing board, first base, ground zero, square onecreation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, originationcradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspringdawning, openingadvent, appearance, arrival, debut(also début), emergencechildhood, infancy, youth close, conclusion, end, ending, omega cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup launchverbto be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofafter retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, pioneer, plant, set up, start author, father, originateconceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)construct, put updevelop, enlarge, expandendow, finance, fund, subsidizearrange, organize, systematize, systemizerefound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch close (down), phase out, shut (up) abolish, annihilate, annul, nullifyend, finish, halt, stop, terminateround (off or out), wind up, wrap up to take the first step in (a process or course of action)she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school begin, commence, embark (on or upon), enter (into or upon), fall (to), get off, kick off, lead off, open, start, strike (into) create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originateadopt, embrace, take on, take upestablish, father, found, institute, organize, pioneer, set up, spawnget around (to), get down (to), get round (to) get going, get to, set about conclude, end, finish, terminate cease, desist, discontinue, halt, knock off, lay off, quit, stopclose, completeabandon, forsake, leaveabolish, demolish, destroy, exterminate, extinguish, phase out to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arminfantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, throw, toss bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shootbuck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust let fly in the 14th century |