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torch
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[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
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