lynched in English

verb
1
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
Angry mobs lynching someone suspected of murder is wrong, even if that person is actually guilty.
synonyms:execute illegallyhangkillstring up
verb

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1. Then he lynched the doe in the trees.

2. 15 A black man was lynched in Mississippi.

3. Wild street celebrations turned to looting and several unpopular officials were reportedly lynched.

4. The prank . We were lynching ( lynched ) , it we were mind it ( murdered ).

5. Only warning shots fired into the air by highway patrolmen prevented the riders from being lynched.

6. In a joint statement, they said: “Having a loved one tortured and lynched produced an unimaginable sense of loss and pain.

7. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched.

8. "The Pantaloon in Black, " in which a big negro named Rider struggles with grief over his wife Mannie's early death and ends up killing a white man and getting lynched in retribution.

9. Alcibiades (450–404 BCE) was a controversial politician and warrior in ancient Greece, who switched allegiances between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and was eventually lynched by a mob for it.