Usually means: Executed without trial by mob.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. lynched: Merriam-Webster
  2. lynched: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lynched: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lynched, lynched: Wordnik
  5. lynched: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lynched: Wiktionary
  7. Lynched, lynched: Dictionary.com
  8. lynched: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lynched: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Lynched: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Lynched: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. lynched: FreeDictionary.org
  13. lynched: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lynched: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lynched: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lynched: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lynched: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lynch)

verb:  To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland.
noun:  A township and village therein, in Boyd County, Nebraska.
noun:  A tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River, Virginia.
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A hamlet in Berkeley parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6799).
noun:  A hamlet in Overton parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5049).
noun:  A hamlet in Selworthy parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9047; West Lynch and East Lynch also appear on OS maps).
noun:  A minor river at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, which joins the River Lea.
noun:  Alternative form of linch [A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.]
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