Definition of "mayhem" []

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

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• "I like the word mayhem but it sounds a bit harsh than what we've got going on."
• "Sounds great, working in mayhem is not nice at all."
• "To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized, merely the domesticated."