Dictionary Entry
torch
torch is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
- 2noun
A flashlight.
- 3noun
a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- 4noun
a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
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- 5noun
a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- 6noun
tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
- 7verb
burn maliciously, as by arson
"The madman torched the barns"
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