unlaunch

English

Etymology

un- +‎ launch

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.
   • 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.