Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mayhem
Participle: mayhemed
Gerund: mayheming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mayhem |
| you | mayhem |
| he;she;it | mayhems |
| we | mayhem |
| you | mayhem |
| they | mayhem |
Perfect
| I | have mayhemed |
| you | have mayhemed |
| he;she;it | has mayhemed |
| we | have mayhemed |
| you | have mayhemed |
| they | have mayhemed |
Past
| I | mayhemed |
| you | mayhemed |
| he;she;it | mayhemed |
| we | mayhemed |
| you | mayhemed |
| they | mayhemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mayhemed |
| you | had mayhemed |
| he;she;it | had mayhemed |
| we | had mayhemed |
| you | had mayhemed |
| they | had mayhemed |
Future
| I | will mayhem |
| you | will mayhem |
| he;she;it | will mayhem |
| we | will mayhem |
| you | will mayhem |
| they | will mayhem |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mayhemed |
| you | will have mayhemed |
| he;she;it | will have mayhemed |
| we | will have mayhemed |
| you | will have mayhemed |
| they | will have mayhemed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mayhem |
| you | mayhem |
| he;she;it | mayhem |
| we | mayhem |
| you | mayhem |
| they | mayhem |
Perfect
| I | have mayhemed |
| you | have mayhemed |
| he;she;it | have mayhemed |
| we | have mayhemed |
| you | have mayhemed |
| they | have mayhemed |
Imperfect
| I | mayhemed |
| you | mayhemed |
| he;she;it | mayhemed |
| we | mayhemed |
| you | mayhemed |
| they | mayhemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mayhemed |
| you | had mayhemed |
| he;she;it | had mayhemed |
| we | had mayhemed |
| you | had mayhemed |
| they | had mayhemed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mayhem |
| you | would mayhem |
| he;she;it | would mayhem |
| we | would mayhem |
| you | would mayhem |
| they | would mayhem |
Perfect
| I | would have mayhemed |
| you | would have mayhemed |
| he;she;it | would have mayhemed |
| we | would have mayhemed |
| you | would have mayhemed |
| they | would have mayhemed |
Imperative
| you | mayhem |
| we | Let's mayhem |
| you | mayhem |
Verbs conjugated like 'mayhem'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mayhem'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Late Middle English mayehem, maihem, a late form of maym, maim (“disfigurement, injury, mutilation; disfigured person”) (whence modern English maim (noun)), from Anglo-Norman mahaim, mahainne (“mutilation”), and Old French mehaing, meshaing (“bodily harm, loss of limb”).
2. The verb is partly:
3. * from Late Middle English mahaym, maheyme, a late form of maimen, maymen (“to injure seriously, mutilate, maim; to damage; to destroy; to afflict with disease; to dispossess”) (whence modern English maim (verb)), from Anglo-Norman mahaigner, mahimer, Middle French mehaignier, and Old French mehaingner, meshaignier (“to destroy; to harm; to injure, maim”); and
4. * from the modern English noun.
5. The etymology of the Old French words is uncertain; they are possibly from Proto-Germanic *maidijaną (“to damage; to hurt; to change; to exchange”) (compare Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (maidjan, “to alter, falsify”); Middle High German meidem, meiden (“gelding”); Old Norse meiða (“to injure”)), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change; to exchange; etc.”), possibly from *mey- (“to change; to exchange”). If so, the English word is a doublet of mad. See: English '
maim', English '
maim', Anglo-Norman '
mahaigner', Middle French '
mehaignier', Old French '
mehaingner', Proto-Germanic '
*maidijaną'.
Sample Sentences
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It is a gentle holineſſe […] to riſe vp in routes and fight againſt chriſten men, and deſtroy […] many a good religious houſe, ſpoyled, meyhemed, ⁊ ſlaine many a good vertuous man, robbed, polluted, and pulled downe manye a goodly church of Chriſt. [1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter XIV.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book IV, page 277, column 2:]
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The breache of the Peace that may be practiſed againſt the perſon, climbeth to the deſtruction of the perſon, by ſundry degrees: as by Threates, Affray or aſſault, and violent and malicious ſtriking, and beating, vvounding, mayheming and killing. [1581, William Lambard[e], “Of the Breach of the Peace without a Multitude, against the Person, and How It may be Stayed, or Punished by one Iustice of Peace out of the Sessions”, in Eirenarcha: Or Of the Office of the Iustices of Peace, […], London: […] Ra[lph] Newbery, and H[enry] Bynneman, by the ass[igns] of Ri[chard] Tottel & Chr[istopher] Bar[ker], →OCLC, 1st booke (What Iustices of the Peace bee: And Why Called Iustices), pages 133–134:]
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Note the life and members of euery ſubiect are vnder the ſafegard and protection of the King, […] to the end that they may ſerue the King and their Countrie when occaſion ſhall be offered. Nay, the Lord of the Uilleine for the cauſe aforeſaid cannot mayheme the Uilleine, but the King ſhall puniſh him for mayinhing [maiming] of his ſubiect (for that hereby hee hath diſabled him to doe the King Seruice) by fine, ranſome, and impriſonment vntill the fine and ranſome bee paid. [1628, Edw[ard] Coke, “Of Villenage”, in The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, →OCLC, book 2, chapter 11, section 194, folio 127, recto:]
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The law had regarded them [black people] as mere chattels; and it had passed into a proverb in the nation, that they had "no rights which white men were bound to respect." To buy, to sell, to task, to whip, to mayhem this race at will, had been from immemorial days a right which the now subjugated people [the Confederate States of America] had claimed and exercised, and which had been conceded and admitted in their previous union with their conquerors [the Union]. [1879, [Albion Winegar Tourgée], “‘Light Shineth in Darkness’”, in A Fool‘s Errand. […], New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, →OCLC, page 287:]
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Outside the enclosures a parade of pugs went solemnly through their exercises—skipping rope, mayheming the punching bags, pawing the air at invisible opponents. [1942 April 20, “Nostalgia on Jacobs Beach: Fight Club’s End Raises the Ghosts of Famous Bygone Battles”, in Newsweek, volume XIX, number 16, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56, column 2:]