lynching的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB以私刑绞死（某人）

If an angry crowd of people lynch someone, they kill that person by hanging them, without letting them have a trial, because they believe that that person has committed a crime.

• They were about to lynch him when reinforcements from the army burst into the room and rescued him.

  他们正准备动私刑绞死他时，援军闯入房间把他救下了。