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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mayhem/ˈmeɪhem/

▶noun

1 violent or damaging disorder; chaos.

2 Law, historical the crime of maliciously injuring someone, originally so as to render them defenceless.

– origin C16: from OFr. mayhem (see maim).

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