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It’s used to describe when something or someone has severely declined in quality or condition—a bit like an overgrown garden that was once stunning but is now untidy and filled with overgrown plants that have gone to seed.
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If someone goes to seed or runs to seed, they allow themselves to become fat, unhealthy and unattractive as they get older. He was big and fleshy, like an athlete gone to seed. Once he had carried a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed.
go to seed. To look shabby, unhealthy, or unattractive due to a lack of care or attention. Wow, Tim's really started going to seed ever since he had kids. The house has gone to seed with those college kids living there. The neighbor's property has really gone to seed lately.
When someone or something is said to have “gone to seed,” it typically means that they have deteriorated or declined in quality over time. Some synonyms for this idiom include: decay, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fall apart, and wear out.
Synonyms for GONE TO SEED: dilapidated, neglected, miserable, abandoned, tired, desolate, ragged, mean; Antonyms of GONE TO SEED: new, fresh, maintained, brand-new, kept-up, reconstructed, rebuilt, cared-for.
If a place goes to seed or runs to seed, it becomes dirty and untidy because people stop taking care of it. The report painted a depressing picture of an America going to seed, its bridges and roads falling apart, its national parks neglected. When she died, the house went to seed.
If you say that someone or something has gone to seed, you mean that they have become much less attractive, healthy, or efficient. He says the economy has gone to seed. ...a retired cop who has gone to seed.
