Lynch

(verb.) kill without legal sanction; 'The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child'.

费理斯编辑

• It was lynch law of a kind; but in view of the responsibility, this action of the conductor lay well within his rights and duties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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