About The Word Lynch
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Lynch
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What's The Definition Of Lynch?
[v] kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lynch: Related Terms | Find terms related to Lynch: and quarter | annihilate | bereave of life | carry away | carry off | chloroform | cut down | cut off | deprive of life | destroy | dispatch | dispose of | do away with | do for | do to death | draw | end | execute | exterminate | finish | finish off | gibbet | hang | immolate | kill | launch into eternity | liquidate | make away with | martyr | martyrize | neck | noose | poison | purge | put away | put down | put to death | put to sleep | remove from life | sacrifice | scrag | slay | starve | stretch | string up | take life | take off See Also | kill Lynch In Webster's Dictionary \Lynch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lynched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lynching}.] [See Note under {Lynch law}.]
To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the
forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected
person. See {Lynch law}.
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