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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
havoc
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cause
▪ Mr James Richardson, prosecuting, said Bedworth caused havoc on a scale which couldn't be imagined.
▪ Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years.
▪ Unexpected demands on your money can cause havoc with even the most carefully planned budgets - at least for a short while.
▪ But they can also cause havoc to buildings.
▪ Whatever the Navy's intentions, their shells were landing in the Commando positions and causing some havoc.
▪ The two Governors after Paullinus were diplomats and administrators and not like the military men who had caused so much havoc.
▪ But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet, for instance.
create
▪ Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction.
▪ A weak yen creates havoc in several ways for Detroit.
▪ The currents so produced can create havoc, even causing whole plants to shut down.
▪ Actually, there is no one food capable of creating physiological havoc all by itself.
▪ If we had some wingers, Les, I tell you we'd create havoc with our crosses.
▪ At least they chose the lesser of two evils, but even so Tank managed to create havoc.
▪ The catfish that is sometimes suggested is carnivorous and pugnacious and generally creates havoc.
▪ He created havoc on the offensive boards and did a good job of blocking shots.
play
▪ Direct sunlight plays havoc with the varnish.
▪ Wind currents and cloud cover always played havoc with our helicopters.
▪ That was when drought dried up the lawns, playing havoc with lawnmower sales and profits.
▪ It gets the crops growing, but it can play havoc with a racetrack and the animals that run on it.
▪ Cold gusts dropped the wind chill into the low 40s and played havoc with final-round scores in the highest-scoring Nissan since 1984.
▪ They also play havoc with your skin and it tends to get a bit sweaty under all the make-up I have to wear.
▪ He can disrupt things, play havoc.
wreak
▪ Teenagers can not wreak that kind of havoc when they are stuck inside.
▪ Beyond this potential for human suffering, the global ignorance of longitude wreaked economic havoc on the grandest scale.
▪ Unassimilated, they might one day wreak havoc in her life.
▪ The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
▪ But we all know that a moment's overload, may wreak havoc.
▪ And they wreak havoc with the goal of raising revenue efficiently.
▪ This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
▪ Seeing him wreak such havoc among a supposedly invincible foe, the Elves within the shrine were heartened.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wreak havoc/mayhem/destruction (on sth)
▪ And they wreak havoc with the goal of raising revenue efficiently.
▪ But we all know that a moment's overload, may wreak havoc.
▪ Did they hire a private eye to wreak havoc on the life of the harasser?
▪ Since elk can also wreak havoc in cropland and forestry plantations, a record 70,000 animals are being culled this hunting season.
▪ The goat, being a goat, wreaks havoc, and the tenant grows desperate.
▪ The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
▪ This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
▪ Unassimilated, they might one day wreak havoc in her life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A weak yen creates havoc in several ways for Detroit.
▪ Direct sunlight plays havoc with the varnish.
▪ Does your horse play havoc with your budget?
▪ It gets the crops growing, but it can play havoc with a racetrack and the animals that run on it.
▪ Surely that gun could not have wreaked this havoc!
▪ The storm wreaked havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and traders will arrive at work.
▪ The trick is to stumble on one of these Aladdin's caves of fishing delight - and wreak havoc.
▪ Wind currents and cloud cover always played havoc with our helicopters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Havoc

Havoc \Hav"oc\, v. t. To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

To waste and havoc yonder world.
--Milton.

Havoc

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.

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.
--Acts viii. 3.

Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works!
--Addison.

Havoc

Havoc \Hav"oc\, interj. [See Havoc, n.] 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
havoc

early 15c., from Anglo-French havok in phrase crier havok "cry havoc" (late 14c.), a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French havot "pillaging, looting," related to haver "to seize, grasp," hef "hook," probably from a Germanic source (see hawk (n.)), or from Latin habere "to have, possess." General sense of "devastation" first recorded late 15c.

Wiktionary
havoc

interj. A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter. n. widespread devastation, destruction vb. 1 To pillage. 2 To cause #Noun.

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WordNet
havoc

n. violent and needless disturbance [syn: mayhem]

Wikipedia
Havoc (musician)

Kejuan Muchita (born May 21, 1974), better known by his stage name Havoc, is an American rapper and record producer. He is one half of the hip-hop duo Mobb Deep with Prodigy.

Havoc (2005 film)

Havoc is a 2005 crime drama film starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips, with Shiri Appleby, Freddy Rodriguez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Biehn, and Laura San Giacomo appearing in supporting roles. The film is about the lives of wealthy Los Angeles, California teenagers whose exposure to hip hop culture inspires them to imitate the gangster lifestyle. They run into trouble when they encounter a gang of drug dealers, discovering they are not as street-wise as they had thought.

Written by Jessica Kaplan and Stephen Gaghan and directed by Barbara Kopple, the film was shown at several film festivals and then went directly to DVD on November 29, 2005.

Havoc

Havoc, Havok, or Havock may refer to:

Havoc (1972 film)

Havoc is a 1972 West German drama film directed by Peter Fleischmann. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

Havoc (album)

Havoc is the fourth studio album by Norwegian progressive metal band Circus Maximus, released on 18 March 2016. The deluxe edition includes a bonus track and an additional disc featuring a 2012 live performance in Japan.

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Usage examples of "havoc".

Jenny knew traumatic personal relationships could wreak havoc with her goal to take her company public and conquer the agoraphobia once and for all.

Oghma the Wise viewed her as a young sage, while Talos the Destroyer saw her as an annihilating whirlwind of magic that left havoc wherever she went.

Curry played havoc with her digestive system and even as she ate it, enjoying the flavor, she made a mental note to take an antacid later.

ICE WATER AND BOMBS While Ronnie Bucca began his first weeks on the job as an FDNY fire marshal, Ramzi Yousef was halfway around the world plotting to use his skills as a bomb maker to wreak havoc for the jihad.

No one, including her Expansionist advisors, could predict the economic havoc they would wreak.

I struggled to free myself, and even though weighed down by these immense bodies, I succeeded in struggling to my feet, where, still grasping my long-sword, and shortening my grip upon it until I could use it as a dagger, I wrought such havoc among them that at one time I stood for an instant free.

By forcibly feminizing him, she hopes to show that she is more powerful than he, and that she can wreak havoc on his nascent masculinity anytime she pleases.

His head, his lungs, and his stomach had alone escaped this cruel havoc.

She wore a wig which fitted very badly, and allowed the intrusion of a few gray hairs which had survived the havoc of time.

I was looking with dread at the fearful havoc of old age upon a face which, before merciless time had blighted it, had evidently been handsome, but what amazed me was the childish effrontery with which this time-withered specimen of womankind was still waging war with the help of her blasted charms.

The decision to delay activation of many of the reservists and to jettison the TPFDL delayed the establishment of the Theater Support Command, which was to manage the logistics for the ground forces, and played havoc with the deployments.

The more ammunition the mudders had, the longer the Havocs would have some sort of haven.

In The Link I described how I began doing automatic drawing and writing, and how this seemed to absorb much of the psychokinetic energy which had caused poltergeist havoc in my home and at school.

Despite their fluffy pink-and-white puffiness, the clouds appeared suddenly as threatening to Joram as the boiling black thunderheads that wreaked havoc yearly on the farming villages.

Said to tell ye that she raised eight babes of her own and she be too old to have these noisy, pesky, dirty varmints raining havoc on her home.