Synonyms:
establish, set_up, found, launch
Meaning: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program"
Synonyms:
launch
Meaning: propel with force; "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"
Synonyms:
launch
Meaning: launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage; "launch a ship"
Synonyms:
plunge, launch
Meaning: begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
Usage examples
He seemed like a great condor about to launch himself upon his victim.
I saw that it was the simian creature who had met the launch upon the beach.
And there they wandered starving for many a weary day, ere they could launch their ship again, and gain the open sea.
The Hans are sure to launch reprisal expeditions. If we're to save the race we must keep them away from our camps and plants.
He did not think that the Lords-Master were to be trusted to abolish slavery; he said so, on the launch, returning to the ship.
At last, after another good cry, she chose the biggest she could find, and ran away laughing, to launch her boat amongst the rest.
The naphtha launch of the millionaire would spit among the romantic coves; the verdured hills would take formal shapes of terrace, lawn, and park.
I turned and saw that the launch had now been unloaded, run out again, and was being beached, and the white-haired man was walking towards us. He addressed Montgomery.
The hands in the launch shouted derisively, and I heard Montgomery curse at them; and then the captain, the mate, and one of the seamen helping him, ran me aft towards the stern.
It was not until I had got the water under (for the water in the dingey had been shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again.