Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense lynches, present participle lynching, past tense, past participle lynched
VERB 以私刑绞死(某人) 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. 以私刑绞死(某人)
They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him. [VERB noun]