LYNCH

[verb] [T] - (esp. of a crowd of people) to kill by hanging (= killing with a rope round the neck) (someone believed to be guilty of a crime) without a legal trialFritz Lang's film, 'Fury', is about a mob who lynch a traveller whom they mistake for a murderer.Following the arrest of the small child's suspected killer, a lynch mob (= a group of people who want to kill someone who is thought to be guilty of a crime, without a legal trial) has been out on the streets.the punishment of someone who is thought to be guilty of a crime, without a legal trial, by killing them