lynch /lɪntʃ/ TEM8 ( lynching, lynched, lynches )

• 1. 

  V-T 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. 对…以私刑绞死

  例：

  They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.

  他们正要以私刑绞死他，军队就冲进房间救了他。

• 2. 

  lynching N-VAR 私刑绞死

  例：

  Some towns found that lynching was the only way to drive away bands of outlaws.

  有些城镇的人们发现私刑是惟一能够驱走那一帮帮歹徒的方法。