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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. violent and needless disturbance;
[syn: havoc, mayhem]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Havoc \Hav"oc\ (h[a^]v"[o^]k), n. [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. [1913 Webster] As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. --Acts viii. 3. [1913 Webster] Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! --Addison. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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 v.0.48:

Havoc \Hav"oc\, interj. [See Havoc, n.] A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. --Toone. [1913 Webster] Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

havoc n 1: violent and needless disturbance [syn: havoc, mayhem]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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