havocing
English
Verb
havocing
- present participle of havoc
- 1922, Carpenter[1], volume 42, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, page 19:
- […] [A]n unrelenting U-Boat warfarewas havocing the coasts, the hope and prayer of a stricket world was America, the Yankees.
- 1991, Justin Wintle, chapter 1989, in Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country[2], Second edition edition, Signal Books, published 2006, →ISBN, Thursday 9th November: Vinh-Dong Ha (Quang Tri Province), page 203:
- If I don’t sleep well again it’s not only because there are more drunken can bo at one or two in the morning, havocing a fair disturbance outside my room. It’s because my head’s too full.
Usage notes
- The spelling havocking is more common.