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