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lynch
verb
    lynches, lynched, lynching
    1. Said of a group of people: to decide mutually without holding a legal trial that someone is guilty of some crime or misdemeanour, and subsequently to put them to death, usually by hanging.
      Thesaurus: hang, string up, kill, murder.
Derivative: lynching
noun
    Etymology: Early 19c: named after Captain William Lynch (1742‐1820), who first presided over a self-created judicial tribunal in Virginia, USA around 1776.



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