havoc

IPA: hˈævʌk

noun

  • Widespread devastation and destruction.
  • Mayhem.

verb

  • To pillage.
  • To cause havoc.
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Examples of "havoc" in Sentences

  • Props 1A-1F must be defeated, because they would wreak long-term havoc on the state.
  • Mr. Brooks seems to think that the reason the insurgents are causing such havoc is because the majority of Americans now see that its a disaster.
  • These types of fears have caused short-term havoc with the shares price in the past but the core earnings just keep chugging along on their upward path.
  • Attempts to reign in spending will likely lead to higher unemployment and may raise winds of deflationary pressure that will wreak long-term havoc to the economy.
  • Things are tearing apart all over the places, bloody havoc is being committed, the planet's coming apart at the seams ... and this inspires hair-tearing and chest-beating and rending of garments across the land?
  • The threat of the havoc is more bark than bite, though; although we see some of the effects of the fast burn, they are somewhat downplayed in favor of Constance's relationships with he mother and her partner, Andy.
  • How fatal the consequences are! the hireling fancies the sheep may look to themselves, but it does not prove so: the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep, and woeful havoc is made of the flock, which will all be charged upon the treacherous shepherd.

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