Etymology: [ mA-"hem, mA-&m ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English mayme, mahaime, from Anglo-Norman mahaim 'mutilation', from Old French mahaign 'bodily harm, loss of limb', from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *maidijanan (“to cripple, injure”) (compare Middle High German meidem, meiden 'gelding', Old Norse meiða 'to injure', Gothic maidjan 'to alter, falsify'),Philip Babcock, ed., Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "mayhem" (Springfield, Mass: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1993. from Proto-Indo-European *mei (“to change”). More at mad.
a general physical disturbance; a crowd tussle or fight, a state of disorder; chaos, The crime of willfully maiming or injuring a person, havoc, defn, English, The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection, You use mayhem to refer to a situation that is not controlled or ordered, when people are behaving in a disorganized, confused, and often violent way. Their arrival caused mayhem as crowds of refugees rushed towards them. = chaos. an extremely confused situation in which people are very frightened or excited = chaos (mahaime , from maynier; MAIM). Crime of willfully and permanently crippling, mutilating, or disfiguring any part of another's body. Some jurisdictions do not distinguish between mayhem and other types of battery. Japanese law treats all batteries similarly; Indian law divides bodily harms into "hurts" and "grievous hurts." In most U.S. states mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault, violence and destruction; chaos; act of maiming, the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person, violent and needless disturbance, See Maim, deliberately cause bodily injury; cause an impairment, cause a disability; cause disorder, cause chaos,
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a general physical disturbance; a crowd tussle or fight - "The clowns would dart into the crowd and pull another unsuspecting victim into the mayhem of the ring"
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a state of disorder; chaos - "What if the legendary hero Robin Hood had been born into the mayhem of the 20th century ?"
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The crime of willfully maiming or injuring a person - "This was the original meaning. The later meanings arose from people misunderstanding the common journalese expression "rioting and mayhem".)"
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havoc
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defn, English
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The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection
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You use mayhem to refer to a situation that is not controlled or ordered, when people are behaving in a disorganized, confused, and often violent way. Their arrival caused mayhem as crowds of refugees rushed towards them. = chaos. an extremely confused situation in which people are very frightened or excited = chaos (mahaime , from maynier; MAIM). Crime of willfully and permanently crippling, mutilating, or disfiguring any part of another's body. Some jurisdictions do not distinguish between mayhem and other types of battery. Japanese law treats all batteries similarly; Indian law divides bodily harms into "hurts" and "grievous hurts." In most U.S. states mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault
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violence and destruction; chaos; act of maiming isim
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the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person
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violent and needless disturbance
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See Maim
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deliberately cause bodily injury; cause an impairment, cause a disability; cause disorder, cause chaos fiil
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