lynch
verb
[ lɪn(t)ʃ ]
• (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.
• "her father had been lynched for a crime he didn't commit"
Similar:
hang,
hang by the neck,
execute,
put to death,
kill,
murder,
string up,
do in,
bump off,
knock off,
slay,
gibbet,
Origin:
mid 19th century: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c. 1780.
