transcription, транскрипция: [ lɪntʃ ]
( lynches, lynching, lynched)
If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime.
They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.
VERB : V n
• lynch‧ing
(lynchings)
Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.
N-VAR