lynch
లించ్
definition
verb
Angry mobs lynching someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty.
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
example
In a prologue, Marion is shown being chased and barely escaping a crowd of angry American white men who want to 'lynch' her and her newly born.
In June 1937, a group of white men broke into the home of Willie Scott in West Feliciana Parish, seeking to 'lynch' him.
We couldn't care less of what humans think, but, when they try to burn, skin or 'lynch' us, then we mind - and hide as best as we can.
Yet they would beat and 'lynch' someone for being something that wasn't within their control, like skin color or region of birth.
Shocked at discovering the evidence of werewolves in their village the townspeople discuss the issue and will ultimately decide to 'lynch' someone whom they suspect of lycanthropy.
I'm afraid the men around him are going to 'lynch' him.
I don't want to go to school with you, but I'm not going to 'lynch' you.
I'd have to agree as well… although I'm not black, so please don't 'lynch' me.
Sue's wise tutelage and Tom's submission to it keeps him alive for nineteen years in the hostile South, where ‘They 'lynch' you bout anything’.
Blake was accused of killing his wife, and they want to 'lynch' him.
They will either 'lynch' him or return him to power.
The students applauded to the skies; the administrators wanted to 'lynch' me.
The clear reference to 'lynchers' who ravaged black America in Cotter's day belies the poet's reputation for silence about such painful American issues.
However, if riots are indeed a language, to return to Brooks's metaphor of mirroring, then it is a language learned from white 'lynchers' .
He had taken a seat next to the guys in the front, and while they didn't look particularly welcoming, they hadn't 'lynched' him yet.
He was 'lynched' in Italy while serving in World War II, after being accused of raping one White woman and murdering another.
In April, people in Ilave burst into a town council meeting, grabbed their mayor, dragged him through the streets and 'lynched' him.
If I go out onto the streets tonight will I be 'lynched' by an England mob?
Angry mobs 'lynching' someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty.
But federal investigations into lynchings could only concentrate on trying to prove that the 'lynchers' had violated their victims' civil rights.
If you just grabbed an unconvicted murderer off the street and 'lynched' him, you would be a murderer in your own right.
Likewise, the collective anonymity of the executioners ensured that few 'lynchers' were ever prosecuted.
He informs her that he is buried next to Celie's mother; however, because he was 'lynched' , there is no marker.
In effect, 'lynchers' could go about their horrific deeds with the protection of the law and little fear of retribution.
Another theory holds that the townspeople 'lynched' him and threw him off the bridge leading into town.
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