Definitions for torches

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torches torch

Spelling: [tawrch]

IPA: /tɔrtʃ/

Torches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in torches (cehorst).

Definitions for torches

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 torches

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

Examples for torches

He is the living fire at which all the children must light their torches.

At last it grew dark, and torches began to blaze in front of the booths.

Her face shone whiter than ever in the light of the torches.

He took some lengths of pitchy pine sticks and arranged them for torches.

However, they approached the gap and examined it with their torches.

A great crowd, carrying hundreds of torches, was marching into the piazza.

For two hours the soldiers had been charging the crowds by the light of lanterns and torches.

They had torches among them, and the chief faces were distinctly visible.

Finally, by the light of torches and lanterns, we saw that we had arrived.

At the shadows that were torches Lennox looked with closed eyes.