havock

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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.
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