lynching
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈlɪnʧɪŋ/
- Offensive
:
linchamiento
- The lynching of innocent people by an angry mob is a horrific violation of justice.
His reasoning was there was an uptick in lynchings every time that film was shown.
- His reasoning was there was an uptick in lynchings every time that film was shown.
- They passed a law to criminalize lynching.
- Here's here's a a law abiding black man supposedly participating in the lynching of the other black man.
- They endorse a policy that has killed more African Americans than slavery and lynching combined.
- Razak compares it to lynchings, which were also often sold as or were defending the community against crime.
- I saw a police union here condemn the the killing, the lynching that we saw in Minneapolis, which to me was a brave step forward.
- We need only recall the postcard image of tortured and burned bodies of black lynching victims hanging from trees as grinning white onlookers point up at them.
Examples
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What happened to Reverend Lee was a lynching.
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There have been 35 lynchings this year alone.
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- It was a lynching, pure and simple.
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When we were screaming for the past two years that they were lynching us, where were you?
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"Last year there were only two lynchings in the entire country," it noted.
Academic text (2011) -
Indeed, in the months before Till's death, two other lynchings of black men occurred in the state.
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She worked for a Republican paper that denounced lynching.
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In the latter part of the 1800s, an average of 150 lynchings occurred per year.
Academic text (1999) -
And between 1900 and 1914, over 1,000 blacks died by lynchings at the hands of whites.
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It triggered the most publicized cases of lynchings in America.
Synonyms
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4.1
An act that causes a person or animal to die
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7.4
An illegal killing of a person planned in advance
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8.6
Killing someone by cutting off their head
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7.3
Killing a person by putting a rope around their neck so they cannot breathe, usually as punishment
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9.9
A punishment where people throw stones at a person and can kill them
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8.4
Killing a living thing, for example as punishment or to end suffering
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Etymology
Lynching comes from the name Lynch and the old phrase Lynch law; one popular story says a Virginia leader named Lynch led groups that punished people 'without a court' in the 1700s. So a lynching means a violent act by a mob done 'without legal authority' or a trial.