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launchesnounpl. of launch 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 blastoffs, liftoffs, takeoffs ascents landings crashessplashdowns the point at which something beginswe are at the launch of a new age of space exploration 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 drawing boards, first bases, ground zeros, square onescreations, inaugurations, initiations, institutions, originationscradles, fountainheads, fountains, germs, origins, roots, seedbeds, sources, springs, wells, wellspringsopeningsadvents, appearances, arrivals, debuts(also débuts), emergenceschildhoods, infancies, youths closes, conclusions, endings, ends, omegas cessations, closings, closures, completions, finales, finishes, periods, stops, terminations, windups to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use ofafter retiring, he launched a small company devoted to making medical devices begins, constitutes, establishes, founds, inaugurates, initiates, innovates, institutes, introduces, pioneers, plants, sets up, starts authors, fathers, originatesconceives, concocts, contrives, cooks (up), creates, devises, fabricates, invents, makes up, manufactures, produces, thinks (up)constructs, puts updevelops, enlarges, expandsendows, finances, funds, subsidizesarranges, organizes, systematizes, systemizesrefounds, reinitiates, reinstitutes, relaunches closes (down), phases out, shuts (up) abolishes, annihilates, annuls, nullifiesends, finishes, halts, stops, terminatesrounds (off or out), winds up, wraps up to take the first step in (a process or course of action)she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school begins, commences, embarks (on or upon), enters (into or upon), falls (to), gets off, kicks off, leads off, opens, starts, strikes (into) creates, generates, inaugurates, initiates, innovates, invents, originatesadopts, embraces, takes on, takes upestablishes, fathers, founds, institutes, organizes, pioneers, sets up, spawnsgets around (to), gets down (to), gets round (to) gets going, gets to, sets about concludes, ends, finishes, terminates ceases, desists, discontinues, halts, knocks off, lays off, quits, stopscloses, completesabandons, forsakes, leavesabolishes, demolishes, destroys, exterminates, extinguishes, phases out to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arminfantrymen launching grenades at the nest of machine gunners casts, catapults, chucks, dashes, fires, flings, heaves, hurls, hurtles, lobs, lofts, pegs, pelts, pitches, slings, throws, tosses bowls, darts, flips, guns, hooks, passes, rolls, shootsbucks, ejects, impels, precipitates, projects, propels, rifles, thrusts lets fly |