lynch
verb/lɪntʃ/
/lɪntʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lynch | /lɪntʃ/ /lɪntʃ/ |
| he / she / it lynches | /ˈlɪntʃɪz/ /ˈlɪntʃɪz/ |
| past simple lynched | /lɪntʃt/ /lɪntʃt/ |
| past participle lynched | /lɪntʃt/ /lɪntʃt/ |
| -ing form lynching | /ˈlɪntʃɪŋ/ /ˈlɪntʃɪŋ/ |
- lynch somebody if a crowd of people lynch somebody they consider guilty of a crime, they capture them, do not allow them to have a trial in court, and kill them illegally, usually by hangingTopics People in societyc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryLynch is used with these nouns as the subject:
- mob
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c.1780.Definitions on the go
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