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149. Lynch - English Vocabulary - Lynch / Lynching / Lynch Mob

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 9. 10.
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Lynch : 린치를 가하다, 사형을 가하다, 처벌하다[처형하다]

Lynching : 교수형 (폭력적인 사적 제재)

Lynch Mob : 린치를 행하는 무리

Lynch law : 사적 제재, (캥거루재판[인민재판]의) 교수형

 

Lynch Mob is a crowd of people who are intent on lyching somebody

The mob believe that someone is quilty of crime, and they kill them without any trial usually by hanging them with a rope around the neck

People believe that they've caught the curprit and to take them out and to hang them

To kill sb who fonund guilty

It is execution without any legal process or authority

To punish sb

Lyching is like a kangaroo court, that is not official 

 

You can use it more metaphorically

If I am late home tonight, my family will lynch me, to be very angry with someone

String sb up

My family will string me up if I don't arrive on time tonight

 

 

Formality : 5 

 

 

 

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