What does "havoc" mean?
Havoc: Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison.
Additional senses
- 2.To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste. To waste and havoc yonder world. Milton.
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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