Synonyms for mayhem
ˈmeɪ hɛm, ˈmeɪ əmmay·hem

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1. mayhemnoun

   the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person

   Synonyms:
   havoc

2. havoc, mayhemnoun

   violent and needless disturbance

   Synonyms:
   havoc

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1. • Crime
   • Disturbance

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1. List of paraphrases for "mayhem":

   chaos, carnage, havoc, ruckus, mess, disorder, devastation, mutilation

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1. Don Samuels:

   When the announcement was made to defund the police … that just opened the doors to a level of mayhem where taboos were erased, standards were no longer acknowledged because only the cops could be wrong – a citizen couldn’t be wrong, and so, the naivete of the leadership to not understand how the lawless community would exploit their announcement was maddening.

2. Jemima Albrecht:

   We come every year, we've never seen it like this before. It's normally mayhem, it was safer for us to stay here.

3. Julian Zelizer:

   The left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It's gone on far too long.

4. Police Sgt. Pete Simpson:

   The headlines are about mayhem, murder and madness. But most of that does not affect people the way car prowls, bike theft and things like that affect people, because it happens to a lot more people.

5. Peter Chin-Hong:

   The way our system is set up now, an infection triggers a chain of events and that leads to confusion, disruption, mayhem. But from a medical respect, these people are mainly vaccinated and not going to go to the hospital, we’re in a very different world from a year ago. … It’s not too bad for young, healthy athletes.