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Lynch
lynch
(lynches, lynching, lynched) If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime. They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him. VERB: V n • lynching (lynchings) Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws. N-VAR
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transitive verb Etymology: ~ law Date: 1836 to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (of a body of people) put (a person) to death for an alleged offence without a legal trial. Phrases and idioms lynch law the procedure of a self-constituted illegal court that punishes or executes. Derivatives lyncher n. lynching n. Etymology: Lynch's law, after Capt. W. Lynch of Virginia c.1780 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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law amer. закон или суд Линча, самосуд, линчевание LYNCH v. amer. линчевать, расправляться самосудом ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v if a crowd of people lynches someone, they hang1 (3) hem as a punishment, without using the usual legal process (At that time you could be lynched for being black.) - lynching n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1835, from earlier Lynch law (1811), supposedly after William Lynch of Pittsylvania, Va., who c.1780 led a vigilance committee to keep order there. Originally any sort of summary justice, especially by flogging; narrowing of focus to "extralegal execution by hanging" is 20c. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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