launches

The word “launches” has 2 syllables: launch-es

It's pronounced as /ˈlɔːntʃɪz/

What is synonym and antonym for launches?

In the thesaurus, “launches” has 144 synonyms and 42 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for launches along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for launches

adopts
advents
alphas
appearances
arranges
arrivals
ascents
authors
baselines
beginnings
begins
births
blastoffs
bowls
bucks
casts
catapults
childhoods
chucks
commencements
commences
conceives
concocts
constitutes
constructs
contrives
cradles
creates
creations
darts
dashes
dawns
day ones
debuts
develops
devises
drawing boards
ejects
embraces
emergences
endows
enlarges
establishes
expands
fabricates
fathers
finances
fires
first bases
flings
flips
founds
fountainheads
fountains
funds
generates
geneses
germs
get-goes
gets going
gets off
gets to
git-goes
ground zeros
guns
heaves
hooks
hurls
hurtles
impels
inaugurates
inaugurations
inceptions
incipiences
incipiencies
infancies
initiates
initiations
innovates
institutes
institutions
introduces
invents
kickoffs
kicks off
leads off
lets fly
liftoffs
lobs
lofts
makes up
manufactures
mornings
nascences
nascencies
onsets
openings
opens
organizes
originates
originations
origins
outsets
passes
pegs
pelts
pioneers
pitches
plants
precipitates
produces
projects
propels
puts up
refounds
reinitiates
reinstitutes
relaunches
rifles
rolls
roots
seedbeds
sets about
sets up
shoots
slings
sources
spawns
springs
square ones
starts
subsidizes
systematizes
systemizes
takeoffs
takes on
takes up
thresholds
throws
thrusts
tosses
wells
wellsprings
youths

Antonyms for launches

abandons
abolishes
annihilates
annuls
ceases
cessations
closes
closings
closures
completes
completions
concludes
conclusions
crashes
demolishes
desists
destroys
discontinues
endings
ends
exterminates
extinguishes
finales
finishes
forsakes
halts
knocks off
landings
lays off
leaves
nullifies
omegas
periods
phases out
quits
splashdowns
stops
terminates
terminations
winds up
windups
wraps up

Meanings of launches

noun
1. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.).
2. The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
3. An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
4. The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
5. A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
6. An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
verb
1. To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
2. To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
3. To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
4. To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
5. To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
6. To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
7. To release; to put onto the market for sale.
8. Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
9. (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
10. (of a program) To start to operate.

Example Sentences

The company launches its new products every season to stay competitive.
She always eagerly watches when SpaceX launches its rockets.
The CEO discussed the upcoming launches during the conference.
He launches the campaign with a huge event to grab attention.
The game developer launches updates regularly to keep the players engaged.

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