Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to torch
Participle: torched
Gerund: torching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | torch |
| you | torch |
| he;she;it | torches |
| we | torch |
| you | torch |
| they | torch |
Perfect
| I | have torched |
| you | have torched |
| he;she;it | has torched |
| we | have torched |
| you | have torched |
| they | have torched |
Past
| I | torched |
| you | torched |
| he;she;it | torched |
| we | torched |
| you | torched |
| they | torched |
Pluperfect
| I | had torched |
| you | had torched |
| he;she;it | had torched |
| we | had torched |
| you | had torched |
| they | had torched |
Future
| I | will torch |
| you | will torch |
| he;she;it | will torch |
| we | will torch |
| you | will torch |
| they | will torch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have torched |
| you | will have torched |
| he;she;it | will have torched |
| we | will have torched |
| you | will have torched |
| they | will have torched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | torch |
| you | torch |
| he;she;it | torch |
| we | torch |
| you | torch |
| they | torch |
Perfect
| I | have torched |
| you | have torched |
| he;she;it | have torched |
| we | have torched |
| you | have torched |
| they | have torched |
Imperfect
| I | torched |
| you | torched |
| he;she;it | torched |
| we | torched |
| you | torched |
| they | torched |
Pluperfect
| I | had torched |
| you | had torched |
| he;she;it | had torched |
| we | had torched |
| you | had torched |
| they | had torched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would torch |
| you | would torch |
| he;she;it | would torch |
| we | would torch |
| you | would torch |
| they | would torch |
Perfect
| I | would have torched |
| you | would have torched |
| he;she;it | would have torched |
| we | would have torched |
| you | would have torched |
| they | would have torched |
Imperative
| you | torch |
| we | Let's torch |
| you | torch |
Verbs conjugated like 'torch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'torch'
touch,
arch,
birch,
botch,
coach,
conch,
cotch,
couch,
cowch,
force,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- set fire to
- ablaze
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche); further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”) (referring to a torch made from twisted plant fibres dipped in a flammable substance such as pitch), from Latin torqua, a variant of torquis (“collar of twisted metal, torque; wreath”), from torqueō (“to twist, wind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
2. Etymology 1 sense 2.3 (Verbascum thapsus) is either due to the plant’s spike of yellow flowers, or because its leaves and stalks were used to make torches (noun etymology 1 sense 1). Etymology 1 sense 3.2 (“precious cause, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others”) is derived from Latin lampada trādere, from Ancient Greek λᾰμπᾰ́δᾰ πᾰρᾰδιδόναι (lămpắdă părădidónai, “to hand over the torch”), a reference to the torch race held at various festivals such as the Panathenaic Games in Ancient Greece, which involved a relay where a torch was passed from one runner to another.
3. The verb is derived from the noun.
Sample Sentences
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Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.
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That influencer torched the company’s PR department.
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The flames torched up twenty feet in the air.