Definition of torch

"torch" in the noun sense

1. torch

a light usually carried in the hand consists of some flammable substance

2. 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

3. flashlight, torch

a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

4. blowtorch, torch, blowlamp

a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame

"torch" in the verb sense

1. torch

burn maliciously, as by arson

"The madman torched the barns"

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Quotations for torch

Sorrow is a torch that lights life.

Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. [ Motto ]

Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. [ Bonar ]

The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. [ Motto ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

The more light a torch gives, the less while it lasts. [ Proverb ]

To every saint his own torch, (i.e. his place of honour). [ Italian Proverb ]

He that bears a torch shadows himself to give light to others. [ Proverb ]

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. [ Burke ]

Love often reillumes his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. [ Lady Blessington ]

Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment. [ De Bonald ]

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Since Cupid is represented with a torch in his hand, why did they place virtue on a barrel of gunpowder? [ Levis ]

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. [ Lowell ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]

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torch in Words With Friends™

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Word Growth involving torch

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Longer words containing torch

blowtorch blowtorched

blowtorch blowtorches

blowtorch blowtorching

cryptorchidism

cryptorchids

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torchbearer torchbearers

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torched blowtorched

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torchier torchiere torchieres

torchier torchiers

torchiest

torching blowtorching

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torchless

torchlight torchlighted

torchlight torchlighting

torchlight torchlights

torchlike

torchlit

torchwood

torchy