(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
a state of chaotic disorderor:
in law: the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of a person
- A food fight accompanied the general mayhem in the cafeteria.
- City officials are concerned that celebrations will turn to mayhem if the championship is won.
- charged with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem
- After a hard day of cracking jokes, pulling pranks, and causing mayhem at school, George and Harold liked to rush to the old tree house in George's backyard.Dav Pilkey -- Captain Underpants (# 1)
- Soldiers still lob grenades from inside retreating trucks, but the building is already on fire and the grenades only seem to add noise to the mayhem.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- The engines soon stalled the Varden's advance, sowing mayhem wherever they aimed.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Roscoe had seen plenty of mayhem on the roads and had even got used to it, after a fashion.Stephen King -- Cujo
- It was that crazy backstage theater mayhem where sweaty actors stand euphoric while people come worship them for a few seconds.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- It would sow mayhem and anarchy.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Can you think of anything sillier than letting yourself be fired out of a spaceship with nothing but mayhem and sudden death at the other end?Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- The seconds stretch, each as long as an hour as I gaze at the mayhem of the battlefield.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- You didn't wait for time to pass and for your creature to start making mayhem.David Almond -- Clay
- 'But we've always stopped short of causing real mayhem,' said Fred.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- With any luck, at least some of the prisoners might escape in the mayhem that ought to result.Mal Peet -- Tamar
- He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- Reading Greek mythology had left him, he told me, with a sense of the antiquity of murder and mayhem, but no real explanations.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- I lost Casey in the blur of perfume and general mayhem, then found her waiting for me by a planter full of ferns.Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
- Murder and mayhem are the life and soul of revolution.John Gardner -- Grendel
- Mayhem reigned until Director-General Davis signaled the orchestra to begin playing the introductory "Columbian March."Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- In other words, there was a sort of lull in the mayhem.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
mayhem = confusion and disorder