lynch

Speech parts

1. lynch - Noun

2. lynch - Verb

3. Lynch - Proper noun

Meaning

To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

string up hang put to death gibbet end slay gallows string kill destroy murder finish sacrifice execute swing
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Antonyms

work free create start release build
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Hypernyms

kill

Phrases with the word

Lynch syndrome b-lynch from lynch lynch him

Derivatives

lynched lynching

Examples

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors. Enoch Powell

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance. Samuel Beckett

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. Laura Dern

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. P. J. O'Rourke

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. Sting (musician)

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. Isabella Rossellini

Close letter words and terms

Lynam Lynbrook lyncean lynch him lynch law lynch mob