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means The murder of someone by a mob, acting outside the law and without trial, usually to terrorize beyond the individual victim.

from The word traces to Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter and justice of the peace during the American Revolution who ran extralegal tribunals punishing suspected Loyalists without proper trial — the practice became known as 'Lynch's law,' then 'lynch law,' then simply 'lynching.' In the century after, the word's meaning darkened and narrowed in the United States, becoming attached overwhelmingly to the racial terror killings of Black Americans, especially from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s — a shift in usage that is itself part of the word's history, not a separate myth.