lynch
verb (used with object)
to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
lynched
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past participleof lynch.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof lynch.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
lynchverb (used with object)to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
Example Sentences
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US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
“Leopoldstadt” went on to win best play, while best musical revival went to another searing work about antisemitism: “Parade,” starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched in 1915 in Georgia.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
His treatments of religious themes like martyrdoms refer obliquely to the Black experience in Jim Crow America; the Kentucky-born artist was just a teenager when Emmett Till was lynched in 1955.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
