mayhem
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hɛm, ˈmeɪ noun
1.
Law. the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
2.
random or deliberate violence or damage.
3.
a state of rowdy disorder: Antagonisms between the various factions at the meeting finally boiled over, and mayhem ensued.
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| 1. | law the wilful and unlawful infliction of injury upon a person, esp (formerly) the injuring or removing of a limb rendering him less capable of defending himself against attack |
| 2. | any violent destruction or confusion |
| [C15: from Anglo-French mahem injury, from Germanic; related to Icelandic meitha to hurt. See | |
| maihem or maihem | |
| —n | |
| [C15: from Anglo-French mahem injury, from Germanic; related to Icelandic meitha to hurt. See | |
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Word Origin & History
mayhem
1472, from Anglo-Fr. maihem (13c.), from O.Fr. mahaigne "injury," related to mahaignier "to maim" (see maim). Originally, in law, the crime of maiming a person to make him less able to defend himself or annoy his adversary.
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Example sentences
We should be putting down the toys, and getting to work at stopping the mayhem and chaos in our society and the world.
Joyless scenarios bounce between scenes of driving around town and predictable party mayhem.
All this mayhem is caused because people cannot look away from their phones.
Anyway, the computerization of vehicles does offer an opportunity for hacking, but that's not the only way to cause mayhem.
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