Synonyms for rocket
ˈrɒk ɪtrock·et

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1. rocket, projectilenoun

   any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, missile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

2. rocket, rocket enginenoun

   a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

3. rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativanoun

   erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

4. rocket, skyrocketnoun

   propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

5. skyrocket, rocketverb

   sends a firework display high into the sky

   Synonyms:
   rocket engine, garden rocket, projectile, skyrocket, arugula, rocket salad, roquette

6. rocket, skyrocketverb

   shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

   "prices skyrocketed"

   Synonyms:
   skyrocket

7. rocketverb

   propel with a rocket

   Synonyms:
   skyrocket

Matched Categories

1. • Herb
   • Jet Engine
   • Propel
   • Rise
   • Vehicle
   • Visual Signal

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dead bird

   the result of my m-60 fire was the dead bird that crashed into the field; an rocket propelled grenade(rpg) made a dead bird out of that drone; the battalion had too many dead birds because of surface to air missiles(sams) in theater that day.

   Submitted by anonymous on May 31, 2020  

2. missle

   i launched the missle (rocket) into space.

   Submitted by rinat on August 28, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "rocket":

   missile, rockets, missiles, rocket-propelled, flare

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1. Oleksandr Usyk:

   The bombing around is crazy, they just bombed the city of Mariupol, one of my friends got a rocket in his roof. [ The Russians ] are not playing games.

2. Melissa Hanham:

   The rocket ejected, began to light, and then failed catastrophically, north Korea used heavy video editing to cover over this fact.

3. Vadym Boychenko:

   The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege, relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers.

4. Fred Westerbeke:

   Most of the information we have points to the use of a Buk rocket being fired from the eastern part of Ukraine.

5. Lamberto Zannier:

   We see a multiplication of incidents, violations of the ceasefire, we've seen cases of redeployment of heavy armaments closer to the contact line ... and multiple rocket launchers, artillery being used.