[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority:In the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of southern African Americans were lynched by white mobs.", "to criticize, condemn, etc., in public:He’s been unfairly lynched in the media."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["John Jack,1917–1999,Irish political leader: prime minister 1966–73, 1977–79."]}]