mayhem: meaning and definitions

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What is mayhem?

What is mayhem?

  • Law The criminal offense of willfully maiming, disabling, or disfiguring a person.
  • Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing; wanton destruction: children committing mayhem in the flower beds.
  • A state of violent disorder or riotous confusion; havoc.

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