Both Uses of
mayhem
in
The Merchant of Death
- They carried clublike weapons and, judging from the poor dead miner with the arrow sticking out of his back, they wouldn't hesitate to use them for whatever mayhem they thought fit.†
mayhem = chaotic disorder
- I quickly ran back toward the mayhem that Alder had caused.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(mayhem) a state of chaotic disorder
or:
in law: the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of a person - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)