havoc

havoc
n
1. devastation, destruction, ruination, rack and ruin, holocaust, demolition, wipe-out, debacle, ruin; spoliation, despoliation, ravage, pillage, plunder, sack; robbing, plundering, gutting, ransacking, vandalizing, wasting, Sl. trashing; rapine, ravishment, predation, depredation.
2. desolation, waste, wreckage, ravagement; extermination, extirpation, obliteration, annihilation; disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm.
v
3. devastate, destroy, demolish, wreck, Sl. total, knock to pieces, wreak havoc on, play havoc with; raze, gut, fell, topple, prostrate, level; pull down, tear down, take down, bring down, break down, throw down; flood, deluge, inundate, sweep away.
4. desolate, lay waste, ravage, ruin, Dial. ruinate, bring to ruin, bring to naught, lay in ruins; despoil, rob, plunder, pillage, ransack; vandalize, waste, Sl. trash; annihilate, obliterate, extirpate, exterminate, stamp out.

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  • Havoc — Hav oc, v. t. To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste. [1913 Webster] To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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