Definitions for mayhems

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mayhems may·hem

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

IPA: /ˈmeɪ hɛm, ˈmeɪ əm/

Mayhems is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in mayhems (aehmmsy).

Definitions for mayhems

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 mayhems

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 mayhems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Something, mayhem decided, had come up during transmigration.

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.