It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.
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Lynching
//ˈlɪnt͡ʃɪŋ//
Synonyms for "lynching" (51 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 私刑 noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- 私罰 /私罚 noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Finnish
1 entries- lynkkaus noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
French
1 entries- lynchage noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Galician
1 entries- linchamento noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
German
1 entries- Lynchjustiz noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Hungarian
1 entries- lincselés noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Japanese
2 entries- リンチ noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- 私刑 noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Korean
2 entries- 린치 noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- 사형 noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Lithuanian
1 entries- li̇̀nčas noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Portuguese
2 entries- linchagem noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- linchamento noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Russian
3 entries- линчева́ние noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- самосу́д noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- суд Ли́нча noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lȉnč noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
- ли̏нч noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Spanish
1 entries- linchamiento noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Swedish
1 entries- lynchning noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Turkish
1 entries- linç etme noun (execution of a person without a proper legal trial)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The last mass lynching in America occurred in 1946.
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Tom hid in Ali's house to escape lynching by the angry Tatoebans.
Source: tatoeba (8089748)
The lynching events have only increased since then.
Source: tatoeba (13206216)
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