Definitions for mayhem

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mayhem may·hem

Spelling: [mey-hem, mey-uh m]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ hɛm, ˈmeɪ əm/

Mayhem is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in mayhem (aehmmy).

Definitions for mayhem

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:

Origin of mayhem

1350-1400; Middle English maheym, maim Anglo-French mahe(i)m, mahaim Germanic; akin to Middle High German meidem gelding, Old Norse meitha to injure. See maim

Examples for mayhem

Rwanda and Ethiopia, symbols in the past of death and mayhem, are now among the fastest-growing economies in the world.

It did not seem possible, mayhem thought now, that a mistake could be made.

mayhem's answer was a question, but the question didn't really require an answer.

Of course there was mayhem there; the whole fight was delayed.

Ex-MMA fighter Jason ‘mayhem’ Miller live-tweeted a standoff with police over domestic violence charges.

Come with me through 117 pages of euphemisms, bureaucracy, and mayhem.

The whole galaxy, let alone the solar system, knew the mayhem legend.

Trevor Austin, CEO of Finna Rage, denied responsibility for the mayhem in Keene.

Something, mayhem decided, had come up during transmigration.

mayhem dabbed at his Sirian forehead gratefully, mopping at sweat.