lynch Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb kill without legal sanction
    • The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child

WordNet

Lynch transitive verb
Etymology
See Note under Lynch law.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Lynched ; present participle & verbal noun Lynching
Definitions
  1. To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Webster 1913