<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Law: the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.</li><li>random or deliberate violence or damage.</li><li>a state of rowdy disorder: Antagonisms between the various factions at the meeting finally boiled over, and mayhem ensued.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>