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Dissipation vs Havoc - What's the difference?

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Dissipation is a related term of havoc.


As nouns the difference between dissipation and havoc

is that dissipation is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste while havoc is widespread devastation, destruction.

As a verb havoc is

to pillage.

As an interjection havoc is

a cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

dissipation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • without loss or dissipation of the matter
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • the famous dissipation of mankind
  • A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
  • * P. Henry
    • to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
  • A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .
  • (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system

    • havoc

    English

    Alternative forms

    * havock (e.g. in Milton)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • widespread devastation, destruction
  • * Bible, Acts viii. 3
    • As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.
  • * Addison
    • Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make / Among your works!
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The People that Time Forgot , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=But when I had come to that part of the city which I judged to have contained the relics I sought I found havoc that had been wrought there even greater than elsewhere. }}
  • mayhem

    • Usage notes

    The noun havoc is most often used in the set phrase wreak havoc. Old Hungarian Goulash?, The Grammarphobia Blog, October 31, 2008

    Derived terms

    * play havoc, raise havoc, wreak havoc, cry havoc, break havoc

    Verb

  • To pillage.
  • * 1599 , , Henry V , Act I, Scene II:
    • To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
  • To cause .

    • 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.

    References

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
  • * Toone
    • Do not cry havoc , where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Cry "havoc", and let slip the dogs of war!