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Another word for launch

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Verb

  1. To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm

    See also:

    move

  2. To go about the initial step in doing (something)

    Idioms:
    See also:

    start

  3. To bring into currency, use, fashion, or practice

    See also:

    start

Noun

  1. An act of throwing

    See also:

    move

  2. The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence

    See also:

    start

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Another word for launch

Noun
  1. See also:

    ship

    boat

Verb

  1. To initiate

    See also:

    begin

  2. To send off

    See also:

    drive

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He'd gone still, like a panther about to launch itself.

  • When close to he was detected, but he had time to drive the steam launch over the baulks and to explode the torpedo against the "Albemarle" with such success that a hole was made in her and she sank.

  • She hugged her knees, ready to launch the next question.

  • Dusty and Talon rose, Talon taking the chance to launch himself at Dusty.

  • Lieutenant Bligh, approaching them in the launch of the "Bounty," 1789, had a hostile encounter with natives.

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