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Another word for launch

launch Synonyms

launch

n.

motorboat, cabin cruiser, ship's launch; see boat, ship.

launch Synonyms

launch

v.

To initiate
originate, start, set going; see begin 1.
To send off
set in motion, propel, drive, lance, thrust, fire off, send forth, eject; see also drive 1, 3.

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Another word for launch

verb

To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm:
cast, dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, pitch, shoot, shy², sling, throw, toss. (Informal) fire. See move
To go about the initial step in doing (something):
approach, begin, commence, embark, enter, get off, inaugurate, initiate, institute, lead off, open, set about, set out, set to, start, take on, take up, undertake. (Informal) kick off. Idioms: get cracking, get going, get the show on the road. See start
To bring into currency, use, fashion, or practice:
introduce, originate. See start

noun

An act of throwing:
cast, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, shy², sling, throw, toss. See move
The act or process of bringing or being brought into existence:
beginning, commencement, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, initiation, leadoff, opening, origination, start. (Informal) kickoff. See start

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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.
Lieutenant Bligh, approaching them in the launch of the "Bounty," 1789, had a hostile encounter with natives.
It was not into this gap, which had no military significance, but upon the isolated divisions of the 1st Army that the Russian general proposed to launch his counterstroke.

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