havoc — OET · Shobdo

havoc

noun

1 the hurricane ripped through Florida causing havoc:

devastation, destruction, damage, desolation, depredation, despoliation, ruination, ruin, disaster, ravagement, waste, catastrophe.

2 hyperactive children create havoc wherever they go:

disorder, chaos, disruption, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, turmoil, tumult, confusion, uproar;

commotion, upheaval, furore, shambles;

informal hullabaloo, a madhouse;

North American, informal a three-ring circus.

▷antonyms peace.

havoc Oxford Dictionary of English