Antonyms for havoc
ˈhæv əkhav·oc

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1. havoc

   A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.

   Synonyms:
   butchery, carnage, massacre, slaughter

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1. havoc

   Antonyms:
   conservation, enhancement, enrichment, augmentation, development, productiveness, luxuriance, prosperity

   Synonyms:
   desolation, ruin, waste, wreck, ravage, demolition, destruction, devastation

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1. • Disturbance

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1. havoc, mayhemnoun

   violent and needless disturbance

   Synonyms:
   mayhem

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1. havocnoun

   Synonyms:
   destruction, devastation, waste, ruin, desolation, demolition, wreck

How to use havoc in a sentence?

1. Chris Harrison:

   Our work has been showing that black holes are very capable of causing havoc over very large distances.

2. Christen Kuikoua:

   Being born in a divided family doesn't give you the right to create havoc. All mankind has the notion of justice ingrained within them, even an infant, who, while feeding on his mother's breast, understands when reprimanded that what he did was wrong.

3. Mike Stuart:

   Today's actions have removed from our streets enough fentanyl to kill more than 250,000 people and massive amounts of other drugs that would have wreaked havoc and misery on our good citizens.

4. Clay Trauernicht:

   On tropical islands, fires have a unique set of impacts, first and foremost, fires were very rare prior to human arrival on any Pacific island. The vegetation, the native ecosystems, really evolved in the absence of frequent fires. And so when you do get these fires, they tend to kind of wreak havoc.

5. Farid Ahmed:

   I am not in my senses … We have lost almost everyone in the family from young kids to elderly members, this extreme weather has played havoc with the lives of people living in high altitude mountains.

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