catapulting

as inlaunch
as inshoot
as inskyrocket
as insling
as inthrow
as inbombard
as infling

Synonyms for catapulting

verb send off

Antonyms for catapulting

Word Origin & History

1570s, from Middle French catapulte and directly from Latin catapulta "war machine for throwing," from Greek katapeltes, from kata "against" (see cata-) + base of pallein "to toss, hurl" (see pulse (n.1)). As an airplane-launching device on an aircraft-carrier by 1927.

Example Sentences for catapulting

Not even a demon could have avoided that catapulting charge.

They were catapulting down, an iron death hail, on the fleet and the city twelve miles below!

Miss Ernestine had meanwhile been catapulting into election issues with all the fervour of a hot-gospeller.

The least play of its purple glow on the under surface of an alien ship was sufficient to send it catapulting down.

Four priests were bowled over by the catapulting body; those human cushions were all that saved Pryak from injury.

Rachel, 83 not having used the foot-rail and not expecting any catapulting, went headlong over the old dashboard.