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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

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