Sekirov Dictionary

mayhem

UK /ˈmeɪhɛm/US /ˈmeɪˌ(h)ɛm/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

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Often preceded by to cause or make: great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; chaos, turmoil; (countable) an instance of this.
- In all the mayhem, some children were separated from their parents.
- What if the legendary hero Robin Hood had been born into the mayhem of the 20th century?
•
Violent conduct, especially the violent infliction of injury on a person or thing.
- The fighting dogs created mayhem in the flower beds.
(US) The criminal offence of maiming a person by depriving them of the use of any of their limbs.
(UK, historical) The criminal offence of maiming (“seriously wounding”) a person such that their ability to defend or protect themselves is weakened or completely removed; (countable) an instance of this.

verb2

(no longer used) To commit the criminal offence of mayhem on (someone); to maim.
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(figurative, no longer used) To violently inflict injury on (someone); to injure, to wound.
- Outside the enclosures a parade of pugs went solemnly through their exercises—skipping rope, mayheming the punching bags, pawing the air at invisible opponents. — 1942

forms

mayhemed · mayheming · mayhems

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