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Havoc means widespread destruction and chaos left behind when something tears through unchecked.

means Widespread destruction and chaos, often left behind after something tears through unchecked.

from From the old military command 'Cry havoc!' — the signal given to an army that permission had been granted to plunder and pillage at will, drawn from the Old French 'havot,' meaning pillage or plunder. By Shakespeare's time ('Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war') it already carried the weight of unleashed destruction, and the word kept that sense of ruin long after the battlefield command itself fell out of use.

origin
from old french cry meaning plunder
original use
military command to begin looting
legal history
once an actual crime in england
shakespeare
popularized cry havoc in julius caesar
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