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hav⋅oc

  [hav-uhk] noun, verb, -ocked, -ock⋅ing.
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–noun
1. great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
–verb (used with object)
2. to work havoc upon; devastate.
–verb (used without object)
3. to work havoc: The fire havocked throughout the house.
—Idioms
4. cry havoc, to warn of danger or disaster.
5. play havoc with,
a. to create confusion or disorder in: The wind played havoc with the papers on the desk.
b. to destroy; ruin: The bad weather played havoc with our vacation plans.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME havok < AF (in phrase crier havok to cry havoc, i.e., utter the command havoc! as signal for pillaging), MF havot in same sense < Gmc

Related forms:
hav⋅ock⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. desolation, waste. See ruin.
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Word Origin & History

havoc 
1419, from Anglo-Fr. havok in phrase crier havok "cry havoc" (1385), a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from O.Fr. havot "plundering, devastation" (fr. avoir), from a Gmc. source (see hawk (n.)), or from L. habere "to have, possess." General sense of "devastation" first recorded c.1480.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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