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LYNCHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lynching" is a kind of...):
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
Derivation:
lynch (kill without legal sanction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb lynch
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