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1. A light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
    
2. Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
   - common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, Verbascum thapsus
    
3. [Brit] A small portable battery-powered electric lamp
   - flashlight
    
4. A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
   - blowtorch, blowlamp

1. Burn maliciously, as by arson
   "The madman torched the barns"

Derived forms: torched, torching, torches

Type of: burn, burn down, burner, electric lamp, fire, flannel leaf, light, light source, mullein, velvet plant

Encyclopedia: Torch