lynch - Definition from the CRIME AND LAW topic - SOCIETY

Topic: CRIME AND LAW

Date:	1800-1900
Origin:	William Lynch (1724-1820), U.S. citizen who organized illegal trials in Virginia

lynch
verb

lynch

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[transitive]

SC if a crowd of people lynches someone, they kill them, especially by hanging them, without using the usual legal process

—lynching noun [countable]

Definition of lynch from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
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