0 the act of killing someone without a legal trial, usually by hanging (= killing using a rope around the neck):
At the time, lynchings were commonplace.
She wrote about the travesty of racially motivated lynching.
There was a lynching of one of the suspected terrorists.
The lynching of two soldiers was reported.
The video showed shocking images of real lynchings.
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