Definition of "lynched" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of lynch. (verb)

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• "As an Arab American, I can empathize with Shirley Sherrod, In the midst of this crisis, I wrote a number of short pieces on a few websites charging that she had been "lynched" and was a victim of a hysterical mob spurred on by lies and cowards in authority who, out of fear or political calculation, had sacrificed her to a mob refusing her right to a fair hearing."
• "No parson would have used the word "lynched" in 1763 London."
• "If Bill had said this, he'd be "lynched" by now considering how much flack he too for his "fairytale" comment."