Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun torch

4 senses of torch

Sense 1
torch -- (a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance)
       => light, light source -- (any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights")

Sense 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)
       => mullein, flannel leaf, velvet plant -- (any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers)

Sense 3
flashlight, torch -- (a small portable battery-powered electric lamp)
       => electric lamp -- (a lamp powered by electricity)

Sense 4
blowtorch, torch, blowlamp -- (a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame)
       => burner -- (an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse); "a diesel engine is an oil burner")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb torch

1 sense of torch

Sense 1
torch -- (burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns")
       => burn, fire, burn down -- (destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries")