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mayhem

maiming, mutilating, dismembering, dismemberment, injury, great bodily injury, disfiguring, crippling, immedicable vulnus (Latin), deforming, deformation, violence, destruction; see also crime 2.

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There was trepidation by the teachers that mayhem would ensue but thankfully the children conducted themselves immaculately.
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 tried to force from my memory the mayhem and violence Grasso had wrought across the country.
I asked, more to take his mind off mayhem than to elicit information.

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