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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Ida B. Wells

Meaning of "lynching" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LYNCHING

lynching  [ˈlɪntʃɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LYNCHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lynching is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LYNCHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lynching

Lynching

Lynching is an extra-legal trial and punishment by an informal group. In most often is used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as charivari, Skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering, but with a drift toward the public spectacle. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often been a means for a dominant group to suppress challengers. However, it has also resulted from long-held prejudices and practices of discrimination that have conditioned societies to accept this type of violence as normal practices of popular justice. Though racial oppression and the frontier mentality in the United States have given lynching its current familiar face, execution by mob justice is not exclusive to North America, but it is also found around the world as vigilantes act to punish people behaving outside of commonly acceptable boundaries. Indeed, instances of it can be found in societies long antedating European settlement of North America.

Definition of lynching in the English dictionary

The definition of lynching in the dictionary is the action or result of lynching a person.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LYNCHING


antilynching
ˌæntɪˈlɪntʃɪŋ
approaching
əˈprəʊtʃɪŋ
branching
ˈbrɑːntʃɪŋ
catching
ˈkætʃɪŋ
Ching
tʃɪŋ
Chongqing
ˈtʃʊŋˈtʃɪŋ
coaching
ˈkəʊˌtʃɪŋ
drenching
ˈdrentʃɪŋ
flaunching
ˈflɔːntʃɪŋ
launching
ˈlɔːntʃɪŋ
matching
ˈmætʃɪŋ
quenching
ˈkwɛntʃɪŋ
ranching
ˈrɑːntʃɪŋ
searching
ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ
stitching
ˈstɪtʃɪŋ
stretching
ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ
teaching
ˈtiːtʃɪŋ
touching
ˈtʌtʃɪŋ
unblenching
ʌnˈblentʃɪŋ
unflinching
ʌnˈflɪntʃɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LYNCHING

lymphopoietic
lymphosarcoma
lymphotrophic
Lynagh
lyncean
lynch
lynch law
lynch mob
lyncher
lynchet
lynchpin
Lyncis
Lyndsay
lyne
Lynn
Lynn Regis
lynx
lynx-eyed
lynxlike
lyolysis

WORDS THAT END LIKE LYNCHING

aching
anything
bewitching
birdwatching
bitching
couching
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enriching
etching
eye-catching
far-reaching
fetching
geocaching
hatching
itching
Kuching
scorching
scratching
screeching
twitching
whale watching

Synonyms and antonyms of lynching in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LYNCHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «lynching» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of lynching

Translation of «lynching» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LYNCHING

Find out the translation of lynching to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lynching from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lynching» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

私刑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

linchamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

lynching
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हत्या
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإعدام خارج نطاق القانون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

линчевания
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

linchamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lynching
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lynchage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lynching
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lynchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リンチ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

린치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lynching
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lynching
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாக்கிக் கொலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फाशीची शिक्षा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

linç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

linciaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lincz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лінчування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

linșaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λιντσάρισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lynching
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lynchning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lynsjing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lynching

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LYNCHING»

The term «lynching» is regularly used and occupies the 71.390 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LYNCHING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lynching

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10 QUOTES WITH «LYNCHING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lynching.
1
George Allen
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
2
Ray Stannard Baker
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
3
Henry Louis Gates
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
4
Samuel L. Jackson
People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
5
Albert Maltz
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
6
Jacques Verges
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.
7
Vernon A. Walters
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
8
Ida B. Wells
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
9
Ida B. Wells
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
10
Ida B. Wells
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LYNCHING»

Discover the use of lynching in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lynching and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in ...
Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and what they derived from them.
Amy Louise Wood, 2009
2
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics.
Jacqueline Goldsby, 2006
3
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Examines the symbols of the cross and the lynching tree in African Americans daily life, spiritual life, and history.
James H. Cone, 2013
4
Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob
An analysis of over one hundred artistic representations of lynching addresses issues of race and racial violence throughout American history.
Dora Apel, 2004
5
Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
If lynching was a national crime, it was a southern obsession. Based on an analysis of nearly six hundred lynchings, this volume offers a new, full appraisal of the complex character of lynching.
William Fitzhugh Brundage, 1993
6
Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History
The book on which the film with Christopher Walken was based.
Richard Gambino, 2000
7
Lynching in America
While this picture of lynching tells a distressingly familiar story about mob violence in America, it is not the full story.
Christopher Waldrep, 2006
8
Lynching in the West, 1850-1935
Ken Gonzales-Day's argument is based on extensive archival research, and his careful, nuanced reading of images provides a beautiful example of how cultural historians can use photographs as primary evidence in exciting new ways.
Ken Gonzales-Day, 2006
9
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, ...
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence ...
Koritha Mitchell, 2011
10
The Tragedy of Lynching
Thorough accounts and analyses of more than 20 lynchings that occurred in America during 1930, prepared by a commission composed of Southern scholars and investigators.
Arthur F. Raper, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LYNCHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lynching is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Lynching Of A 13 Year Old Reveals Our Shameful Support For …
“Even exposing a child to violence amounts to abuse,” asserted Kabukabu Ikwueme, a London-based freelance writer with a background in the ... «Youth Ki Awaaz, Jul 15»
2
'Always in Season': Cucalorus artist in residence documents history …
Jackie Olive thought she had finished her documentary, years in the making, about the impact of lynching in America. Then, she heard about ... «Port City Daily, Jul 15»
3
Ida B. Wells, Anti-Lynching Crusader and Mother of Intersectionality
Ida B. Wells-Barnett—journalist, suffragist and anti-lynching activist—is Thursday's Google doodle, in honor of her 153rd birthday. An often ... «Jezebel, Jul 15»
4
Bangladesh arrests man for 'filming' boy's lynching
Bangladesh arrests man for 'filming' boy's lynching ... a banner during a demonstration against the lynching of a 13-year-old boy in Dhaka. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Bangladeshi protesters carry a banner during a demonstration …
Bangladeshi protesters carry a banner during a demonstration against the lynching of a 13-year-old boy in Dhaka - AFP ... «DAWN.com, Jul 15»
6
Dark Ages 2.0: The Return of Public Lynching
The rise of online technology, and social media in particular, has created a new brand of public lynching, thankfully limited to a virtual universe ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Lynching of boy in Bangladesh sparks protests
The grisly lynching of a 13-year-old boy accused of theft has triggered angry protests in Bangladesh, after footage of the killing went viral on ... «CNN, Jul 15»
8
Bangladesh boy's lynching sparks protests
DHAKA, Bangladesh (CNN) —The grisly lynching of a 13-year-old boy accused of theft has triggered angry protests in Bangladesh, after ... «WDSU New Orleans, Jul 15»
9
Public Lynching of Teenager in Bangladesh Brings Hundreds of …
The brutal murder of a 13-year-old boy last week, publicly beaten to death by a group of men, has sparked widespread protests in Bangladesh, ... «TIME, Jul 15»
10
Group Fights To Keep Mural Of Native American Lynching
In Boise, Idaho, a preservation group is fighting to keep two murals depicting the lynching of a Native American in a university and government ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»

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