Violence vs Mayhem - What's the difference?
violence | mayhem |
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.
Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing.
(legal) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection.
(legal) The crime of damaging things or harming people on purpose.
As nouns the difference between violence and mayhem
is that violence is extreme force while mayhem is a state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos.violence
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Noun
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Hypernyms
* (extreme force) forceAntonyms
* peace, nonviolenceSee also
* domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----mayhem
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Alternative forms
* maihemNoun
(en-noun)- What if the legendary hero Robin Hood had been born into the mayhem of the 20th century ?
- In all the mayhem , some children were separated from their partners.
- She waded into the mayhem , elbowing between taller men to work her way to the front of the crowd.
- The clowns would dart into the crowd and pull another unsuspecting victim into the mayhem of the ring
- The fighting dogs created mayhem in the flower beds.