English-Dutch translations for mayhem

  • chaos
    Het verbaast me niets dat eenentwintig landen zo wijs zijn om niet verstrikt te raken in een EU-spoorwegenweb dat leidt tot chaos op alle stations naar Brussel. No wonder 21 countries are too wise to get caught in an EU rail web leading to mayhem on all stations to Brussels. Het is een campagne van fatsoenlijke regeringen overal tegen degenen die proberen een politieke daad te stellen door middel van moord en chaos. It is a campaign of decent governments everywhere against those who would try to make their political point through murder and mayhem. Op het terrein van de EU-regelgeving hebben twee amendementen nooit eerder zoveel chaos en verwarring veroorzaakt ten nadele van het democratische standpunt van de Commissie vervoer. Never in the field of EU legislation have two amendments caused so much mayhem and confusion to the detriment of the Committee on Transport's democratic position.
  • wanorde
    De 58 doden en 200 gewonden die gevallen zijn, zijn een spijtig gevolg van de staatsgreep en ze voorspellen wanorde en chaos voor de toekomst. The deaths of some 58 people with a further 200 wounded is a sorry postscript to the coup and presages future upheaval and mayhem.

Definition of mayhem

  • A state or situation of great confusion, disorder, trouble or destruction; chaos
  • Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing
  • The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his limbs which are necessary for defense or protection

Examples

  • 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.

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