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Havock


HAV'OCK, noun Waste; devastation; wide and general destruction.

Ye gods! what havock does ambition make Among your works.--Addison

As for Saul, he made havock of the church. Acts 8:3.

HAV'OCK, verb transitive To waste; to destroy; to lay waste.

To waste and havock yonder world.