lynched; lynching; lynches
: to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission
The accused killer was lynched by an angry mob.
lyncher
noun
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The impetus for Ellie’s trajectory in Part II came from Druckmann seeing footage as a teenager of Israeli soldiers being lynched in the West Bank.
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Barry Levitt, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
His horrifying 1952 mural The Incident, a study for which appears in the MFA show, depicts a Black family shielding themselves in their home while a Black man is lynched by Klansmen outside.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Vigilante mobs regularly terrorized and at times even lynched these immigrants, who were often portrayed as unassimilable, inferior and disease-ridden.
—Amy Qin, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
In 2012, four students from the University of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State and one of Nigeria’s oil producing areas, were lynched after they were wrongly suspected of being armed robbers.
—Dyepkazah Shibayan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
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Barry Levitt, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
His horrifying 1952 mural The Incident, a study for which appears in the MFA show, depicts a Black family shielding themselves in their home while a Black man is lynched by Klansmen outside.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Vigilante mobs regularly terrorized and at times even lynched these immigrants, who were often portrayed as unassimilable, inferior and disease-ridden.
—Amy Qin, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
In 2012, four students from the University of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State and one of Nigeria’s oil producing areas, were lynched after they were wrongly suspected of being armed robbers.
—Dyepkazah Shibayan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Lynch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lynch. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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lynch
verb
: to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal authority
lyncher
noun
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lynch
transitive verb
: to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction
lyncher
noun
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