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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Havoc \Hav"oc\ (h[a^]v"[o^]k), noun [W. hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or rapacious bird, or F. hai, voux! a cry to hounds.] Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. --Acts viii. 3.
Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Havoc \Hav"oc\, verb (used with an object) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
To waste and havoc yonder world. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Havoc \Hav"oc\, interj. [See {Havoc}, noun] A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. --Toone.
Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. --Shak.
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
havoc
noun: violent and needless disturbance [syn: {mayhem}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "havoc": abomination, atrocity, bad, bane, befoulment, blight, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, calamity, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, consumption, corruption, crying evil, damage, damnation, decimation, defilement, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devastate, devastation, disintegration, disorder, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, evil, grievance, harm, harry, hecatomb, holocaust, hurt, ill, infection, injury, loss, mayhem, mischief, outrage, perdition, pillage, pillaging, poison, pollution, ravage, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sack, shambles, slaughter, spoliate, spoliation, the worst, toxin, undoing, upset, vandalism, venom, vexation, waste, woe, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong
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