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lynch

🇬🇧 UK/lintʃ/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions

v.

To execute someone, especially by hanging, without a legal trial, typically by a mob

对…处以私刑（尤指绞死）

🧩 Root Breakdown

Eponym
lynchother
=lynch

Common Collocations

  • 1.[lynch/hang] without trial[处以私刑/绞死]而不经过审判
  • 2.[lynching/mob justice][私刑/暴民正义]

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The mob threatened to lynch the accused without trial.

  • 2.

    History has dark chapters of people who were lynched.

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