catapult

1. 1.

   shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult

   “the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort”

   Broaderpropel
2. 2.

   hurl as if with a sling

   Synonymssling

   Broaderhurl

Other forms of catapult

plural

catapults·

past tense

catapulted·

present participle

catapulting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catapult

What does catapult mean?

catapult means "a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catapult?

catapult has 3 syllables: cat-a-pult. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætəˌpʌlt/.

What is another word for catapult?

Close synonyms include slingshot, sling, launcher, arbalest, arbalist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catapult a common word?

catapult is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.