Synonyms for lynch
lɪntʃlynch

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1. lynchverb

   To execute without a proper legal trial, especially by hanging.

   Synonyms:
   string up

Princeton's WordNet

1. lynchverb

   kill without legal sanction

   "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

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1. lynchverb

   Synonyms:
   [U. S.] punish without trial, inflict summary punishment on

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1. List of paraphrases for "lynch":

   delahaye, merrill, lin, bastien, lam

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1. Charles Schumer:

   Republicans have once again tied themselves in a knot, who would have thought they can't even get a human-trafficking bill with bipartisan support done? …. There’s other work to be done. At the top of that list is Loretta Lynch.

2. Ekrem Dumanli:

   I see a direct link with the elections, with the mentality of a dictatorship, someone can declare you an enemy, and lynch you with pre-prepared prosecutors and judges.

3. Ben Crump:

   It's heart-wrenching. That's why Wanda Cooper-Jones need prayers, and Wanda Cooper-Jones need the pastors' prayers for Wanda Cooper-Jones, just so Wanda Cooper-Jones can try to keep Wanda Cooper-Jones sanity, if this was your child, how would you keep composure after you see these people lynch him and then you see them offer this self-defense and people are actually taking this as if it's credible ?

4. Chuck Grassley:

   Taking advices (sic) as he did from the deputy Attorney General Rosenstein that Comey should not have acted both as a prosecutor and an investigator. In other words, he should be investigating the Justice Department, under then-(Attorney General) Lynch should have made the decision on prosecuting. He seemed to take responsibility for both, which I think is main reason the President made his decision.

5. Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

   Ms. Lynch's nomination will not remain in purgatory forever.