lynches

[US]/lintʃ/
[UK]/lɪntʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. vigilante justice; execution by a mob
vt. to execute by a mob; to carry out vigilante justice

Phrases & Collocations

lynch mob

lynch law

lynch victim

merrill lynch

david lynch

Example Sentences

and then a MAN goes in the night, with a hundred masked cowards at his back and lynches the rascal.

"The Pantaloon in Black," in which a big negro named Rider struggles with grief over his wife Mannie's early death and ends up killing a white man and getting lynched in retribution.

The mob threatened to lynch the accused criminal.

The vigilantes planned to lynch the corrupt politician.

The community was shocked by the attempt to lynch an innocent man.

The history of racial violence includes many cases of lynching.

The angry mob gathered to lynch the suspected thief.

The sheriff intervened to prevent the crowd from lynching the prisoner.

The town had a dark history of lynching African Americans.

The lynching of innocent individuals is a heinous crime.

The community came together to denounce the lynching of a young man.

Lynching is a brutal form of extrajudicial punishment.

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