v. To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
v. To commit an act of violence by a mob upon the body of another person.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See lynch law.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. See linch.
To punish by lynch-law; punish summarily, for a crime or public offense of any kind, without authority of law; specifically, to punish with death in this manner. See lynch-law.
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v. kill without legal sanction
Word Usage
"White was convicted of manslaughter for shooting one of the teenagers in what he referred to as a lynch mob."