unlaunch

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ launch.

Verb

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

(transitive) To undo or reverse the launching of.
- 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Hearings, page 478:
  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.
- 1998, IBM Journal of Research and Development, volume 42, page 214:
  In order to terminate the session, the client issues ServiceGatewayDetach to the gateway, which calls the application server to unlaunch the currently running service.