Grow and Ravaged

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Grow verb - To look after or assist the growth of by labor and care.

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Ravaged is an antonym for grow.

Nearby Words: growth, growing, grown, grower

Ravaged adjective - Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.

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Grow is an antonym for ravaged in destroy topic.

Nearby Words: ravage, ravaging

In Final Fantasy VI, the ravaged and desolate world shows its first signs of recovery when some children, who have been trying to get flowers to grow, succeed in getting a single flower up.

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In Brooks' World War Z, this phenomenon becomes a lingering social problem after the Zombie Apocalypse which ravaged western society, as orphaned children who were separated from their parents (by death or worse) and who managed to survive in the wild grow up feral.

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