Launch and Spawn

Launch

Launch verb - To take the first step in (a process or course of action).

Usage example: she launched a career in journalism after quitting acting school

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Spawn and launch are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spawn" instead a verb "Launch".

Nearby Words: launched, launching, launcher, launchable

Spawn verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: these artists spawned a whole new movement in painting

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Launch and spawn are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Launch" instead a verb "Spawn".

Nearby Words: spawning, spawned

group	launch group	spawn group
wave	launch wave	spawn wave
weapon	launch weapon	spawn weapon
enemy	launch enemy	spawn enemy
Other words: attacks, waves, weapons, enemies.

Halloween (1978) didn't invent the modern slasher film, but it did codify most of the tropes of the genre, launch the careers of John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis, and spawn a wave of imitators.

Source: Genre Turning Point
Instead after completing their evolution phase they consume all available forms of nutrition in the parallel versions of the world before destroying it to launch their spawn into space.

Source: Planet Eater
Stock Sound Effects: Almost everything, from the monster roars to the launch sound of the monster spawn cubes in MAP30, thanks to id licensing sound FX from the Sound Ideas library.

Source: Videogame / Doom

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Spawn and Launch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/launch/spawn

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