0 past simple and past participle of torch
1 to burn a building or other large thing, intentionally and usually illegally:
The burning of the cooperative building is still shrouded in mystery, but some people believe that the building was torched by guerrillas who regarded cooperatives as symbols of colonial exploitation.
This is obviously another car that has been torched.
The first time, they left; the second time, they came back and torched the barn.
Some abandoned cars are the consequence of joyriding and are torched to remove the evidence of who was involved in the theft.
Often reasonable-looking vehicles are quickly torn to pieces and sometimes torched.
I know that they will drive people out and that we will see properties boarded up, bricked up and torched.
Several cars were dismantled and torched; one caravan was gutted and dismantled.
That is why club houses are torched and cricket squares are dug up.
