Havoc
Havoc (hav"ok) , noun
[Welsh hafog devastation, havoc; or, if this be itself from English havoc, compare Old English havot, or Anglo-Saxon hafoc hawk, which is a cruel or rapacious bird, or French hai, voux! a cry to hounds.]
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.
Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make
Among your works!
Havoc , transitive verb
To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
To waste and havoc yonder world.
Havoc , interjection
[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.
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!