GO TO SEED Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

go to seed

phrase

variants or run to seed

Definition of go to seed

as in deteriorate

to become worse or of less value They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it.

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as in decompose

to go through decomposition When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed.

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Revel in sweet victory or despair when things go to pot and your party slowly loses its collective mind.

— PCMAG, PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2023
The people there have let the streets of San Francisco go to pot.

— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 June 2022

Definition of go to pot

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Yet on a scorching Monday afternoon, Ludlow sat alone at a streetside coffee shop in Eagle Rock, trying to account for how the biggest jazz event in Los Angeles history fell apart.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Fresh off signing a $73 million contract extension with the Astros, Oswalt was facing the New York Mets, a team that tried to trade for him a few weeks prior before talks on a three-way deal that also included the Baltimore Orioles fell apart.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

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