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   torch

   /tɔːtʃ/

   noun

   • 1. a portable battery-powered electric lamp. British Similar lamplightflashlightbeaconrare:illuminantflambeau
   • ▪ a portable means of illumination such as a piece of wood or cloth soaked in tallow and ignited, sometimes carried ceremonially. historical Similar firebrandbrandlanterncandletaperhistorical:linkcresset
   • ▪ used to refer to a valuable quality, principle, or cause, which needs to be protected and maintained: "mountain warlords carried the torch of Greek independence"
   • 2. a blowlamp. North American
   • 3. an arsonist. informal US

   verb

   • 1. set fire to: informal "the shops had been looted and torched"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French torche, from Latin torqua, variant of torques ‘necklace, wreath’, from torquere ‘to twist’. The current verb sense was originally US slang and dates from the 1930s.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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