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What (who) is lynch - definition
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Lynch (disambiguation)
Lynch
·vt To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. ·see Lynch law.
lynch
(lynches, lynching, lynched)
If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime.
They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.
VERB: V n
• lynching (lynchings)
Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.
N-VAR
lynch
¦ verb (of a group) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.
Derivatives
lyncher noun
Origin
C19: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c.1780.
Examples of use of lynch
1. "How can this all be wrong?" demanded Lynch –– prompting Davis to accuse Lynch of "a new definition of lynching." Rep.
2. Among the children are Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch, and state Democratic Party Chairman William Lynch.
3. Rick Lynch, commander, Multinational Division–Center.
4. Rick Lynch, the chief American military spokesman.
5. Lynch bought Promneftstroi days before the auction.