Definitions for torch

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torch torch

Spelling: [tawrch]

IPA: /tɔrtʃ/

Torch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in torch (chort).

Definitions for torch

noun

1. a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
2. something considered as a source of illumination, enlightenment, guidance, etc.:
3. any of various lamplike devices that produce a hot flame and are used for soldering, burning off paint, etc.
4. Slang. an arsonist.
5. Chiefly British. flashlight (def 1).

Idioms

1. carry the / a torch for, Slang. to be in love with, especially to suffer from unrequited love for:

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to the flame or light of a torch, as in order to burn, sear, solder, or illuminate.
2. Slang. to set fire to maliciously, especially in order to collect insurance.
3. to point (the joints between roofing slates) with a mixture of lime and hair.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn or flare up like a torch.

Origin of torch

1250-1300; Middle English torche (noun) Old French Vulgar Latin *torca something twisted. See torque

Examples for torch

It was the torch of a fisherman—one of those eyes of the South of which Artois had thought.

Dorothea was holding a torch, the liquid droppings of which fell upon her hands.

Clarence House today released a video of Prince Harry speaking about the start of the  Paralympics torch relay.

Thankfully, my father took up the torch and left no doubt that we were looked after.

The cabman bought a torch from a passer-by, and stuck it in his whip-barrel.

The prize was bestowed on him who ran the course without extinguishing his torch.

After an image-invigorating tenure as U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Clinton will pass the torch to Sen. John Kerry on Friday.

It feels like someone is chopping up my legs with a machete or burning them with a torch from the inside out.

China carried the torch: Under Mao Tse-tung, “the Chinese people were doing well.”

His torch will be at the threshold and his knife at the throat of the planter.