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lynching


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lynching 
  n  :  putting  to  death  by  mob  action  without  due  process  of  law 




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