See mayhem in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "We terrified the mare and foal. / The fox stood still and far too bold. / So we strung him up, brush neatly folded— / Mayhem, maybe.",
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"text": "In the 1870's, a young newspaper editor named Henry George walked the streets of San Francisco lamenting the paradoxical economic mayhem that lay all around him.",
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"text": "Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But, my friends, there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.",
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"text": "Jack lifted the binoculars to his eyes, and it was difficult not to laugh at the utter mayhem. Faeries ripped plumes from helmets; soldiers found their pistols dangled just out of reach.",
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"text": "On Friday, amid increased traffic from the Outside Lands music festival, a number of self-driving cards seemed to glitch. One TikTok user recorded a Cruise vehicle causing \"mayhem\" outside of the festival where it was stuck at an angle in the middle of the street.",
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"text": "Andrew and Fiona Eyre, both 52, from Sheffield, had been looking forward to their trip to Paris since booking it in September, but their train was also cancelled. \"It was absolute mayhem and the lack of communication was just disgusting,\" Andrew said.",
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],
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],
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"code": "fi",
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"lang_code": "fi",
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"word": "sekasorto"
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{
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"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chaos"
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],
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"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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},
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"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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"tags": [
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],
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"code": "gl",
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"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "gl",
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"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "gl",
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"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
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"masculine"
],
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"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "felfordulás"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "zűrzavar"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marasma"
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{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"lang_code": "ml",
"roman": "kuḻappaṁ",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "കുഴപ്പം"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"lang_code": "ml",
"roman": "nāśaṁ",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "നാശം"
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{
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"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "aneatanga"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "kūnakunaku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "tīrangorango"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bezład"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "bezrząd"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chaos"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"word": "alvoroço"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caos"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "confusão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "desordem"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tumulto"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "besporjádok",
"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "беспоря́док"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
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],
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
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"sense": "great confusion, destruction, disorder, or trouble; instance of this",
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],
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{
"code": "ru",
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"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "xaós",
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],
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],
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"code": "es",
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],
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