lynch lawnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈlɪntʃ ˌlɔː/us/ˈlɪntʃ ˌlɑː/the punishment of someone who is thought to be guilty of a crime, without a legal trial, by killing them
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- mass murder
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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