launch – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to launch one's lunch
Participle: launched one's lunch
Gerund: launching one's lunch

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	launch one's lunch
we	Let's launch one's lunch
you	launch one's lunch

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to cause an object to move rapidly through the air

cast, chuck, feck, fling, hurl, lob, pitch, shy, skew, sling, throw, toss

initiate

introduce, originate, begin, inaugurate, start

Antonyms

to finish (something)

begin, commence, continue, execute, inaugurate, maintain, proceed, restart, start, end

initiate

end, terminate, finish, destroy

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1300, from O.N.Fr. lancher (O.Fr. lancier) "to fling, hurl, throw, cast," from L.L. lanceare "wield a lance," from L. lancea "light spear" (see lance). Sense of "set (a boat) afloat" first recorded c.1400, from notion of throwing it out on the water; generalized by 1600 to "any sort of beginning."
2. From Middle English launchen (“to throw as a lance”), Old French lanchier, another form (Old Northern French/Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi) of lancier, French lancer, from lance. See: Middle English 'launchen'.

Verbs referencing "launch"

Italian lanciare, Spanish lanzar, Esperanto lanĉi, German, old spelling launchen.

Sample Sentences