Havoc
['hævək]
Definition
(n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
(v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
(n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ravage, devastation, destruction, desolation, waste, ruin, spoil, pillage, rapine, spoliation, slaughter, carnage.
Editor: Meredith
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Desolation, ruin, waste, wreck, ravage, demolition, destruction, devastation
ANT:Conservation, enhancement, enrichment, augmentation, development,productiveness, luxuriance, prosperity
Typed by Bernadine
Definition
n. general waste or destruction: devastation.—v.t. to lay waste.—interj. an ancient hunting or war cry.
Typed by Bert
Examples
- What wonder, that this year, when as we are told, its virulence is unexampled in Asia, that it should have occasioned double havoc in that city? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The North Sea and the English Channel have been invaded by German submarines which have made great havoc among merchant ships. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These mines can be thrown for a considerable distance and create havoc in the enemy’s trenches if the aim is true. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Lastly, that were it not for these _diverticula_, it would rage in the bowels of the earth much more furiously, and make greater havoc than it doth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Many had gone down on both sides, but by far the greater havoc had been wrought in the ranks of the guards of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Splinters from the timber would have made havoc among the men behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At his command havoc and rapine were let loose once more among the temples of the worship of Brahmah. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I placed myself before the glass, to contemplate the havoc which sickness and anxiety had made on my features, and sighed heavily. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In 1648 the princes and diplomatists gathered amidst the havoc they had made to patch up the affairs of Central Europe at the Peace of Westphalia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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