launch

launch is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
2. intransitive verb. To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
3. intransitive verb. To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
4. intransitive verb. To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
5. intransitive verb. To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
6. noun. The act of launching.
7. noun. The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
8. noun. The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like.
9. noun. the act of propelling with force

   Synonyms: launching

10. noun. a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
11. verb. begin with vigor

    "He launched into a long diatribe"

    "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"

    Synonyms: plunge

12. verb. smoothen the surface of

    "launch plaster"

13. verb. propel with force

    "launch the space shuttle"

    "Launch a ship"

14. verb. get going; give impetus to

    "launch a career"

    "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"

15. verb. launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage

    "launch a ship"

16. verb. set up or found

    "She set up a literacy program"

    Synonyms: establish, found

Synonyms

launching, plunge, establish, found

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in launch:

chulan, nuchal

Common word forms

launched, launcher, launches, launchful, launching, launchable

Words from these letters

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