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lynch
[lin(t)SH]
VERB
lynching (present participle) · lynching (noun)
- (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
"her father had been lynched for a crime he didn't commit" · "a city full of lynchings and riots"
synonyms:
hang · hang by the neck · execute · put to death · kill · murder · string up · do in · bump off· knock off · slay · gibbet
ORIGIN
mid 19th century: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c. 1780.