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lynch

verb as in kill by hanging

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One party leader had described the lynching as an "accident", while another said consuming beef was unacceptable.

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White supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan had a history of publicly hanging, or lynching, Colored teachers and burning down schools, homes, and churches.

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The public lynching of Michael Milken, and then of Salomon Brothers CEO Gutfreund, were excuses for not dealing with the disturbing forces underpinning their rise.

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Negotiations to surrender the fort ended with its officers brutally lynched.

The worst of them — think Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., or White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt — smile broadly as they lynch the truth and denigrate the working press on the daily.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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