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mayhem

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mayhem \may"hem\, n. [The same as maim. See Maim .] (Law) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim . Violent disorder, especially such as causes serious harm to persons ...

Usage examples of mayhem.

He explained that this was the time when the adolescents had to perform some great deed to earn adulthood, deeds that often included acts of mayhem against non-Sand People races.

Third, and as a direct result of the second, we had an unbalanced afrit loose, too, causing additional mayhem.

But the girl had indulged in so much, well, mischief and mayhem, since coming to Ashling, that even Mother Teresa would have felt taxed.

Besides the Nun, our female members include a sinister Virgin Huntress who seems to have wreaked mayhem or worse on one of the auberge counselors in order to qualify as a recidivist, and an extremely cautious ex-Meta Lady who is, at the moment at least, content to remain just one of the boys.

Jamie and Ailig would go along, but Broc, Calum and Gowan were the instigators of much of the mayhem that took place.

High noon sees the knight riding forth, his horse prancing to a chaconne that lives in its head, the pair of them bent on creating mayhem amongst evil and bringing home the desired object.

Demons burst from torn portals on the plain, tore mayhem through the shrieking, flinching ranks.

Tonight, combine typical holiday mayhem with the rising magickal flood and Goddess knows what will be out, hungry and yummy for some sweet tender kidlet chow.

It continued staring at the opto as it spilled the larger-than-life mayhem of professional football into the restaurant.

Despite the lesson of past experience, it seemed as if Padi and Syl Vor might actually be with their tutors this morning - or engaged in quiet mayhem in another part of the house.

Florida, we now get nightly recaps of the bloodiest mayhem committed across the nation.

Lak Saa stumbled out of his tent, stared at the mayhem, and ignored the line of machine gun bullets that dug divots out of the ground in front of him.

London yestreen I fell upon some person to whom I had never been introduced and committed mayhem upon his person.

The senior Parlementaires, who had been more alarmed than elated by their victory, made haste to remove themselves from town before any further mayhem occurred.

He was still mouthing stories of torture, extortion, mayhem and murder through the crust of the very special apple pie that Sarge had cooked because the colonel considered it a delicacy.