havoc
Widespread ruin unleashed
Havoc is widespread destruction or chaos.
The word appears most often in set phrases: to wreak havoc is to cause extensive damage or disorder; to play havoc with something is to disrupt it severely.
The storm wreaked havoc on coastal towns.
Inflation played havoc with their retirement plans.
Absence of organization
- turmoilViolent disturbance or confusion
- mayhemViolent disorder and destruction
- pandemoniumState of utter confusion
- bedlamState of wild disorder
anarchy · confusion · upheaval · tumult · commotion · uproar · disruption · disarray
Severe widespread destruction
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- damageHarm or impairment
- carnageWidespread violent death
demolition · ravage · annihilation · desolation · obliteration · catastrophe · calamity · disaster
disorder
Absence of organization
- turmoilViolent disturbance or confusion
- mayhemViolent disorder and destruction
- pandemoniumState of utter confusion
bedlam · anarchy · confusion · upheaval · tumult · commotion · uproar · disruption · disarray · shambles
devastation
Severe widespread destruction
carnage · demolition · ravage · annihilation · desolation · obliteration · catastrophe · calamity · disaster · cataclysm
distress
Severe anxiety or suffering
agony · suffering · despair · heartbreak · grief · misery · pain · turmoil · upheaval · breakdown
- rowdinessrowdiness, boisterousness, raucousness, unruliness, roughhousing
- troublemakingtroublemaker, troublemaking, instigate, agitator, instigating
- discorddiscord, Discord, dissonance, discordance, dissonant
- chaosmayhem, chaotic, pandemonium, bedlam, turmoil
- commotioncommotion, clamor, brouhaha, bedlam, hullabaloo
- dangersdanger, peril, hazard, risk, menace
havocorder
Methodical arrangement or request
orderliness · organization · system · structure · method
havocpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
protection · restoration · construction · conservation · reconstruction
- wreak havocCause widespread destruction
- cry havocCall for devastation
- crying havocSignaling unrestrained attack
- cries havocCalls for mayhem
- cried havocOrdered soldiers to plunder