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lynching
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lynch \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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging. vb. (present participle of lynch English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. It is an extreme form of informal group ...
Usage examples of lynching.
She sped after Billy Fuster and the others, no longer concerned about Bo getting into a fight, but worried that the peaceful town of Hayden might suddenly have a lynching on its hands.
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I checked, vigilantism and public lynchings were still illegal in this country.
The British Censorship Bureau later notified Orwell it excised from his letter of 15 April a reference to the possible lynching of German airmen who baled out.
The lynchings evoked editorial cautions against crazing Negroes with cocaine to get more work out of them.
Holocaust, Republicans seem to busy themselves with ethnic cleansing, race baiting, and lynchings.
In many respects this is an antithesis to his earlier films, in which an innocent man is made the victim of credulity, ignorance and hate which grows into a lynching.
He looked rather ridiculous up there talking about things like the sociological significance of protest and the psychological content of lynching, about the values of the Lowbrow movement and the hypocrisy of Senator Bartlett and his Subcommittee, about the importance of the scientific method and the necessity for the detachment of the scientist.
We'll dig up all the guns we can find, and catch up the orneriest cayuses in our strings, and have a real, old lynching bee--sabe?
Lynchings were common, and Southern states were allowed to determine who could and couldn't vote within their borders disenfranchising citizens of African descent.
The newspapers carried front-page stories and photographs of lynchings in the South, child labour in factories.
Bud had mistaken these for suicides until he'd seen a lynching in progress: a prisoner who was thought to have stolen some other fellow's shoes was picked up bodily by the mob, passed from hand to hand overhead like a crowd-surfing rock singer, all the time flailing frantically trying to grab something.
The vigilantes have everyone all lathered up and ready for a lynching, and the sheriff has his hands full trying to keep order.
My Logrus sight gave me view of the line of force from which he hung suspended, however, victim of what might, I suppose, be termed a magical lynching.
During his camÂpaign John Rand was lynched, and as he had opposed the election, it was hinted that Blackstone may have had something to do with the lynching.