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unlaunch

unlaunch verb: to undo or reverse the launching of.

Verb

unlaunch (third-person singular simple present unlaunches, present participle unlaunching, simple past and past participle unlaunched)

  1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the launching of.
    • They pay a $5 fee for the season, and the permit gives them the privilege of launching their boats and unlaunching them at one of these ramps.1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, page 478
    • In order to terminate the session, the client issues ServiceGatewayDetach to the gateway, which calls the application server to unlaunch the currently running service.1998, IBM Journal of Research and Development, volume 42, page 214

Forms of unlaunch

third-person singular presentunlaunches
present participleunlaunching
past participleunlaunched
pastunlaunched

Origin of unlaunch

From un- + launch.

Questions about unlaunch

What does unlaunch mean?
Unlaunch means to undo or reverse the launching of.
What part of speech is unlaunch?
Unlaunch is a verb.
What is the past tense of unlaunch?
The past tense of unlaunch is unlaunched.

Words near unlaunch in the dictionary

  1. unlaughed
  2. unlaughing
  3. unlaughingly
  4. unlaughs
  5. unlaughter
  6. unlaunch
  7. unlaunchable
  8. unlaunched
  9. unlaunches
  10. unlaunching
  11. unlaundered

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