different between wrecked vs havoc

English

Alternative forms

• (utterly defeated): rekt (Internet slang)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

wrecked (comparative more wrecked, superlative most wrecked)

1. Destroyed, usually in an accident; damaged to the point of unusability.
2. (slang) Very intoxicated from alcohol and/or other drugs.
3. (Internet slang) Having been put in a dreadful or embarrassing situation; can range from being pwned in a game to being utterly defeated in an argument or publicly shamed with a stinging insult.

Synonyms

• (destroyed): annihilated, awrack, eradicated, irrepairable, ruined
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk or Thesaurus:stoned
• (utterly defeated or shamed): rekt

Translations

Verb

wrecked

1. simple past tense and past participle of wreck

English

Alternative forms

• havock (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæv.?k/

Noun

havoc (usually uncountable, plural havocs)

1. widespread devastation, destruction

   • Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make / Among your works!
2. mayhem

Usage notes

The noun havoc is most often used in the set phrase wreak havoc.

Derived terms

• play havoc, raise havoc, wreak havoc, cry havoc, break havoc

Translations

Verb

havoc (third-person singular simple present havocs, present participle havocking, simple past and past participle havocked)

1. To pillage.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II:

     To tear and havoc more than she can eat.

2. To cause havoc.

Usage notes

As with other verbs ending in vowel + -c, the gerund-participle is sometimes spelled havocing, and the preterite and past participle is sometimes spelled havoced; for citations using these spellings, see their respective entries. However, the spellings havocking and havocked are far more common. Compare panic, picnic.

Translations

Interjection

havoc

1. A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

   • Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.

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