Word Finder - mayhem

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A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.

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In all the mayhem, some children were separated from their partners.

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Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.

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The fighting dogs created mayhem in the flower beds.

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The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection.

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The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose.

Someone broke into this house of one of my targets and some sort of mayhem followed.

Each passing year brought the mayhem further northward, causing the old timers and the local newspaper to fret for the good old days when violence was no worse than a dog fight.

I asked, more to take his mind off mayhem than to elicit information.

I tried to force from my memory the mayhem and violence Grasso had wrought across the country.

If you had to watch lord knows what mayhem he sees you'd have shrieking nightmares too!

There was trepidation by the teachers that mayhem would ensue but thankfully the children conducted themselves immaculately.

Don't pull any pranks that could hurt you, your parents, your parent's property, or hurt any bystanders that happen to get caught up in the mayhem of your pranks.

There have been many pretenders since, but no one has managed to beat the masters at their own game and even come close to turning out the kind of musical mayhem Jack and Meg produce with just a guitar and a set of drums.

Most reality TV shows have specific themes and challenges that are meant to pit the contestants or participants together so they fight, argue, and cause mayhem.

The Big Brother surveillance systems catch all kinds of mayhem going on in the house.

Photographers who specialize in the human form may want to register and use sites such as Model Mayhem and One Model Place as their photographers website host.

He almost preferred the idea of death at Czerno's hands to the mayhem his wards caused.

Gladiators lumbered toward one another, dragging their weighty hoses like giant pythons, heads down, intent on wreaking mayhem on their opponents while the combatant did the same to them.

Peep into a bumblebee 's nest and you'll find trickery, fighting and mayhem.

As faithful purveyors of monsters and mayhem, most of us want to throw a shindig that can scare and entertain and one sure fire way to do that is to come up with gross recipes for Halloween.

Parking mayhem - Seniors can either switch parking spaces with underclassmen or take up two or three spaces, leaving the others with nowhere to park.

These cheats can come in handy both for the single-player campaign and for multiplayer mayhem.

Resident Evil 4 is another great edition to the series of zombie blasting, horror-stricken mayhem.

Take Bomberman Blast online for 8-player mayhem or stay at home and complete puzzles.

Reeking havoc and mayhem wherever they go will be typical for this immature couple.

While this list of urban legends includes both true and false tales of murder and mayhem, sometimes it's very difficult to determine which stories are true or false when you first hear them.

We'd coaxed Howie to look away from eminent mayhem, simply to preserve his own sanity.

Apparently the historic Calvia dinner transpired without bloodletting, or at least no mayhem was reported by Cynthia after her lengthy conversation ended.

If Lydia Larkin had heard Westlake's admission before she fired the fatal shot, it was apparently lost in her mind in the mayhem that followed.

It lay there, under the bureau, ringing away, as if out of spite for the mayhem he'd thrust upon it.

Motivated by extreme, even apocalyptic ideologies, some terrorists ' ambitions to inflict mayhem seem unlimited.

However, he did eventually ring me from Croatia, where he very sensible went to avoid the mayhem.

Chicago now poses ruthless mayhem of problems in its.

The film is a story of drugs, gangs and bloody mayhem with a pinch of black humor thrown in.

Dance around with magical mayhem exploring many different movement styles to a variety of music.

Five Pointe 0 takes the sound of many diverse acts to make their own special brand of intense musical mayhem.

In this ' Give me Ed... Till I'm Dead ' Tour, Iron Maiden continue the non-stop metal mayhem.

In vibrant Accra, Ghana's capital city there was complete traffic mayhem.

To add to the mayhem, is the total neglect of vital micronutrients so essential to the release of energy from bodily stores.

A new and pneumatic female sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie, tackles murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life.

New local acquaintances never questioned us about work and we displayed no interest in anything pertaining to crime or mayhem.

Betsy was beside herself with frustration when she heard what mayhem our nemesis had wrought.

Dean introduced Fred O'Connor, who was taking it all in, and the three chatted in a quieter area at the far end of the hall, away from the worst of the mayhem.

It wasn't a lack of curiosity—he needed this week away from murder and mayhem.

It wasn't a lack of curiosity—he needed this week away from murder and mayhem.

Whilst everyone enjoys their half-time cuppa, it's mayhem in the press box.

With 70 guests invited and only six tables of ten laid, mayhem very quickly ensued.

He caused absolute mayhem pushing the pram to the back of the bus.

Richard always had the idea of creating religious mayhem.

Inside, Deep Throat watches the mayhem, looking calm.

This new CD from Assert will definitely satisfy the thirst for some hardcore punk mayhem.

Blyth are playing three times on the Saturday, so a wild day of rock mayhem will be had by all.

It was time for you to be reunited at the Bridge and cause mayhem!

Peep into a bumblebee's nest and you'll find trickery, fighting and mayhem.

Read more... Mountain Mayhem 2003 21 Jun 2003 More self-inflicted pain from two Nottingham-based teams, this time in Birmingham.