Synonyms for lynching
lynch·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. lynchingnoun

   putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

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1. • Murder

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1. Emmanuel Macron:

   Those guilty of the cowardly and criminal lynching of police doing their duty on the night of December 31st will be found and punished, force will support the law. Honor to the police and full support to all the agents attacked in such a low level fashion.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

3. Clarence Thomas:

   As a black American, as far as Im concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves... and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you -- you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.

4. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   This is a sham. This is a joke, so yeah this is a lynching, in every sense. This is un-American.