MAYHEM meaning: Violent or damaging physical disorder

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word mayhem:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

mayhem: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mayhem: Merriam-Webster
mayhem: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mayhem: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mayhem: Collins English Dictionary
mayhem: Vocabulary.com
Mayhem, mayhem: Wordnik
mayhem: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mayhem: Wiktionary
mayhem: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mayhem: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mayhem: Infoplease Dictionary
mayhem: Dictionary.com
mayhem: Online Etymology Dictionary
mayhem: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Mayhem: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mayhem: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
mayhem: Rhymezone
mayhem: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mayhem: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
mayhem: FreeDictionary.org
mayhem: Mnemonic Dictionary
Mayhem: The Word Detective
mayhem: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

mayhem: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
mayhem: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
mayhem: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
mayhem: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

mayhem: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

mayhem: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Mayhem: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
▸ noun:  Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.
▸ noun:  (law) The maiming of a person by depriving them of the use of any of their limbs which are necessary for defense or protection.
▸ noun:  (law) The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose.
▸ verb:  (archaic, law) To commit mayhem.

Similar:

havoc, disarray, hot mess, state, muddlement, shemozzle, mess, maze, misrule, moil, more...

Opposite:

order, peace, harmony, tranquility

Types:

riot, looting, vandalism, arson, assault, burglary, kidnapping, terrorism, more...

Phrases:

Agents of Mayhem, The Muppets Mayhem, Mayhem discography, Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, more...

Adjectives:

general, such, more, political, total, bloody, further, absolute, physical, social, usual

Colors:

crimson, blood red, charcoal, ash gray, electric blue, more...