See go to seed on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1911, Jack London, Adventure:",
"text": "Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.",
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"(of a plant) To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds."
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
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"ref": "1898, Eliot Gregory, Worldly Ways and Byways:",
"text": "But the \"frump\" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.",
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"ref": "1919, Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary:",
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"ref": "2021 August 19, 27:45 from the start, in NewsHour (television production), Peter Meijer (actor), Public Broadcasting System:",
"text": "[…] if this total Taliban takeover and collapse was one of the contingencies that […] President [Joe] Biden had foreseen, then how come this plan […] went to seed so rapidly?",
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"ref": "2023 May 28, Janan Ganesh, “Right on the money”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:",
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
"word": "schießen"
},
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
"word": "in Samen schießen"
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
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"sense": "plant: to pass to the formation of seeds",
"word": "puarere"
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"word": "verwahrlosen"
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"word": "go to seed"
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