Overview of noun torch

The noun torch has 4 senses

• torch -- (a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance)


• common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, torch, Verbascum thapsus -- (tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches)


• flashlight, torch -- (a small portable battery-powered electric lamp)


• blowtorch, torch, blowlamp -- (a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame)

Overview of verb torch

The verb torch has 1 sense

• torch -- (burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns")