[lɪn(t)ʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a group of people) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging
(e.g: her father had been lynched for a crime he didn't commit)

- severely criticize or condemn (someone)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: from Lynch's law, named after Capt. William Lynch, head of a self-constituted judicial tribunal in Virginia c.1780