[tɔːtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a portable battery-powered electric lamp

- a blowlamp

- an arsonist


Phrases:
- carry a torch for
- put to the torch

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

[tɔːtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- set fire to
(e.g: the shops had been looted and torched)


Phrases:
- carry a torch for
- put to the torch

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