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LYNCHING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lynching" is a kind of...):

execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Derivation:

lynch (kill without legal sanction)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb lynch

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