Launch (Verb)

Meaning ¹

Launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; "launch a ship".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Hypernyms

• Set In Motion

Related Words

• Launch (noun)

Meaning ²

Propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Hypernyms

• Impel

Related Words

• Launch (noun)
• Launcher (noun)

Meaning ³

Get going; give impetus to; "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Synonyms

• Set In Motion

Hypernyms

• Displace

Meaning ⁴

Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program".

Classification

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

Synonyms

• Found
• Establish
• Set Up

Hypernyms

• Open
• Open Up

Meaning ⁵

Begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Synonyms

• Plunge

Hypernyms

• Set Out
• Get Down
• Start
• Start Out
• Set About
• Get
• Commence

Meaning ⁶

Smoothen the surface of; "launch plaster".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Hypernyms

• Smoothen