Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: havoc
IPA transcription: [h'ævək]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: havoc, mayhem
    Meaning: violent and needless disturbance
Usage examples
  • Our seven-barrelled pieces made great havoc amongst them.
  • A hole several feet in diameter marked the spot where the crucible fell. The stuff had delayed not an instant in working its havoc.
  • With one accord, and without stopping to pick their way, they made for the open doorway, knocking the smaller pieces of furniture about and creating havoc generally.
  • It was so sudden, so appalling, so tragic in its nature, that for the time being it quite overshadowed the havoc and misery wrought in a number of other California towns of lesser note.
  • At the bottom of the stairs lay a big pink conch shell amid the fragments of what had been Miss Barry's platter; and at the top of the stairs knelt a terrified Davy, gazing down with wide-open eyes at the havoc.
  • Such are invariably led into the haunts of the thieves, who easily secure them. Young horses and mules are easily frightened; and, in the havoc which generally ensues, oftentimes great injury is done to the runaways themselves.
  • Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses and made havoc with them, not sparing her wedding dress either, but tearing and ripping them all up so that there was hardly a shred or rag left big enough to dress a doll in.