Lynch
[lɪn(t)ʃ] or [lɪntʃ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) kill without legal sanction; 'The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child'.
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解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [U. S.] Punish without trial, inflict summary punishment on.
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to judge and punish without the usual forms of law.—n. Lynch′-law (Amer.) a kind of summary justice exercised by the people.
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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