as in violence
actions that hurt people and destroy things; a scene or situation that involves a lot of violence
Movies seem to be filled with murder and mayhem these days. a criminal who escaped from prison and caused mayhem
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Recent Examples of mayhem
The ominous new clip includes monsters, mayhem, violence, and plenty of fire.
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Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
Memphis mayhem The Memphis Grizzlies are fourth in the Western Conference with a 38-23 record.
—Stan Son, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025
The program tells the story of a computer hack that causes widespread death and mayhem, setting America on war footing and prompting the creation of an autocratic investigatory body.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Reckoning Part One involves Ethan and his team tracking down two keys that unlock the power of a frightening AI system with the ability to cause mayhem with the world's banks, mess with the power grid, and more.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
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Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
Memphis mayhem The Memphis Grizzlies are fourth in the Western Conference with a 38-23 record.
—Stan Son, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025
The program tells the story of a computer hack that causes widespread death and mayhem, setting America on war footing and prompting the creation of an autocratic investigatory body.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Reckoning Part One involves Ethan and his team tracking down two keys that unlock the power of a frightening AI system with the ability to cause mayhem with the world's banks, mess with the power grid, and more.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mayhem
Noun
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One where the memories are as much of romance as violence, as based around out-of-pocket jokes as tears.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Mar. 2025
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Their violence — in medieval bestiaries, unicorns are regularly said to have beef with elephants and take them down by goring their bellies — is contrasted with their gentleness towards maidens and innate understanding of purity.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
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Featuring works by renowned photojournalists and archival footage, the exhibit serves as a record of war crimes committed eight decades apart yet eerily similar in brutality.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
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Marchand Jumps Ship Captain Brad Marchand, now 36, also suffered an upper-body injury in early March, and has undergone multiple surgeries over the past few years.—
Carol Schram,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Before the contest, the only injured player on Sacramento’s injury report was reserve forward Jake LaRavia, who missed his second straight game with a bone contusion in his left thumb.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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The disclosure came in filings from the Manhattan district attorney’s office responding to requests by Mangione’s lawyers ahead of his trial on murder and terror offenses stemming from the Dec. 4 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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In a shocking report published March 24, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he was accidentally added to a group chat in which very senior government officials planned a strike on the Houthi terror group in Yemen earlier this month.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Mayhem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mayhem. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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