catapult

• arbalest
• ballista
• bowl
• buck
• cast
• chuck
• dart
• dash
• eject
• fire
• fling
• flip
• gun
• heave
• heaver
• hook
• hurl
• hurler
• hurtle
• impel
• launch
• let fly
• lob
• loft
• pass
• peg
• pelt
• pitch
• pitcher
• precipitate
• project
• propel
• propeller
• rifle
• roll
• shoot
• shooter
• sling
• slingshot
• throw
• thrust
• toss
• tosser
• trebuchet

• ground
• hold back
• lower
• restrain
• stop

• noun
  1. A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
  2. Slingshot.
  3. An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
  4. An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
• verb
  1. To fire a missile from a catapult.
  2. To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
  3. To increase the status of something rapidly.
  4. To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
  5. To have one's status increased rapidly.

• The soldiers used a catapult to launch stones over the castle wall.
• The invention of the catapult changed ancient warfare strategies.
• The toy catapult sent the ball flying across the room.
• Engineers studied how a medieval catapult worked.
• A sudden success can catapult a young artist into fame.

dash

launch

let fly

cast

plane

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