SCSARif a crowd of people lynches someone, they kill them, especially by hanging them, without a trial 用私刑处死〔尤以绞刑〕
—lynching noun [countableC]
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lynch• In the course of the riot the governor of the city was lynched.• Wildstreetcelebrations turned to looting and several unpopularofficials were reportedly lynched.• A history of lynching has bred this reflex in her.• A black man was lynched in Mississippi.• One of the city leaders was nearly lynched on Nov. 27 by a mob.• Police stopped a crowd from lynching the attacker, aged 22.• Then he lynched the doe in the trees.• The people did not see the two youths - but if they saw them now they say they would lynch them.
Originlynch
(1800-1900) William Lynch (1724-1820), U.S. citizen who organized illegal trials in Virginia