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widespread destruction, disruption, or disorder- The virus wreaked (caused) havoc in our computer system.
- The storm played (caused) havoc with our vacation plans.
- The havoc in international trade will ripple through the economy.
- You don't need too many committed to martyrdom to wreak havoc.Tom Ridge
- Isn't he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem...Acts 9:21 (NIV)
- Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc.Mark Twain -- Tom Sawyer
- He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;Isaiah 54:16 (NIV)
- Cry, "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
- As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.Acts 8:3 (NKJV)
- The infection spread into the town of Boston, and made much havoc there.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Grandfather's Chair
- This quarry cries on havoc.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Blackcliff is pure havoc, worse than I could have imagined.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- "A sneeze can wreak havoc on the fringe," said Tweedy knowingly.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- Miserable food, ill-timed and greedily eaten, had played havoc with bone and muscle.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Saint Dane promised to wreak havoc with all the territories in his quest to rule Halla.D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
- "My Queen," said the dark-haired woman, "refers to your so-called blue fever that has wreaked such havoc on your citizens.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- Who hath made this havoc with them?William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- But my heart smote me when we climbed aboard and looked at the havoc he had done.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- Dinner was carried in, but he would not dine with me until I would undo that day's havoc in the pigsty.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty