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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
Michael Merzenich

Meaning of "go to seed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GO TO SEED

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WHAT DOES GO TO SEED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of go to seed in the English dictionary

The definition of go to seed in the dictionary is to produce and shed seeds. Other definition of go to seed is to lose vigour, usefulness, etc.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GO TO SEED

go to
go to bed
go to blazes!
go to court
go to ground
go to it
go to law
go to meet one´s Maker
go to one´s head
go to pieces
go to pot
go to sea
go to the country
go to the devil
go to the dogs
go to the pack
go to the wall
go to town
go together
go too far

WORDS THAT END LIKE GO TO SEED

aniseed
bad seed
birdseed
canary seed
caraway seed
cottonseed
fern seed
flaxseed
grapeseed
hayseed
hempseed
linseed
Niger seed
oilseed
poppy seed
pumpkinseed
rapeseed
reseed
seed
terminator seed

Synonyms and antonyms of go to seed in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «go to seed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GO TO SEED

Find out the translation of go to seed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of go to seed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «go to seed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

去种子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ir a la semilla
570 millions of speakers

English

go to seed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीज के लिए जाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يذهب إلى البذور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

идти, чтобы отобрать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ir para sementes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বীজ যান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monter en graine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pergi ke benih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vergammelt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シードに行く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시드 로 이동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pindhah menyang winih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi để gieo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விதைக்கு செல்லுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बियाणे जा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tohuma git
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

andare a seme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przejdź do materiału siewnego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

йти , щоб відібрати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

du-te la semințe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάει με τους σπόρους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gaan na saad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gå till utsäde
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gå til frø
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of go to seed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GO TO SEED»

The term «go to seed» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GO TO SEED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about go to seed

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QUOTES WITH «GO TO SEED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word go to seed.
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Michael Merzenich
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GO TO SEED»

Discover the use of go to seed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to go to seed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American ...
These annual plants will go to seed quickly if given the opportunity, but they will also cross-pollinate with so many different vegetables and weeds that isolating choice plants inside a cage is a necessity for seed saving. The seed of Chinese ...
Leandre Poisson, Gretchen Vogel Poisson, 1994
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Jeff Cox's 100 Greatest Garden Ideas: Tips, Techniques, and ...
Instead of getting the traits of the plant the seed came from, you'll usually get less- desirable characteristics from one of the original parents of the cross. Whenever you let plants go to seed, choose healthy specimens with tasty fruit and growth ...
Jeff Cox, 1998
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The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, ...
It’s easy, and it’s fun! Authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough thoroughly explain every step in the seed-saving process.
Robert E. Gough, Cheryl Moore-Gough, 2011
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Greenhouse Gardener's Companion: Growing Food and Flowers in ...
One variety they offer called ProfusionTM has been selected to never go to seed at all and thus remains more productive and tender. Sorrel does well in either full sun or light shade and is not picky about soil or moisture. Harvest only the ...
Shane Smith, Marjorie C. Leggitt, 2000
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Salad radishes are annuals; shortly after bulbing they go to seed. In hot weather, radishes go to seed even more rapidly, taste more pungent, and quickly get pithy when oversized, so in most cases the salad radish is either grown as a spring ...
Steve Solomon, 2006
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for the ...
However, they may go to seed in a single season, if planted in early spring. Such plants have already experienced short days and cool spring temperatures and may bolt when the long, hot days of summer arrive. There is a danger, however, ...
Kent Whealy, 2012
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Vernon's Sayles' Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of ...
If the company allows Johnson grass or Russian thistle to go to seed, the landowner may recover only one penalty for one contiguous tract of land, though it be subdivided and rented to numerous tenants; but. If the tracts of land are separated ...
Texas, John Sayles, Henry Sayles, 1914
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The Southwestern Reporter
Error Is assigned to that clause of the court's charge reading as follows: "It shall hereafter be unlawful for any railroad or corporation doing business In this state to permit any Johnson grass to mature or go to seed upon any right of way owned , ...
‎1911
9
Industrial distribution
/__—_ i V \\'hen you let your flowers go to seed, they stop producing blossoms, call it a season and quit. There are some mill supply salesmen who are ready to call it a day or a week and quit for the night or for over Sunday just as soon as they ...
‎1920
10
Popular Mechanics
If the hay is not cut, the grass will go to seed. Of course, the lawn mower prevents seed production, but, even so, the spring seedling will tend to spindle rather than to stool, and will not produce such vigorous turf as the fall seedling. The spring ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GO TO SEED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term go to seed is used in the context of the following news items.
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5 Corn and Soybean Factors to Watch Now
“If we leave lots of weeds to go to seed, it could take the next 20 years to fix it,” he says. * Disease. “Corn diseases have just exploded in the last ... «Agriculture.com, Jul 15»
2
Oldest Post Office in City Lies Desolate, Abandoned
"The post office is part of our heritage and the building should not be allowed to go to seed. The postal department must identify such old ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
3
Broomfield Enterprise Gardening July 12: July's to-do list for the …
Weeds also are still high on the list. In fact this year they are growing, well, like weeds. It's important to remove them before they go to seed and ... «Broomfield Enterprise, Jul 15»
4
San Diego Gardening in July: It's about the Water!
In additon, pinch off flowering basil, lemon verbena, basils and other herbs so the plants don't bolt and go to seed. It is not painful to do ... «San Diego Free Press, Jul 15»
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What can be attacking this reader's hostas?
If you can't get to all the weeds, try to make sure that you pull or cut back any that are flowering or ready to go to seed. Allowing the seeds to ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jul 15»
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Consumer Qs: Lettuce, dandelions members of same plant family
Their kinship is most noticeable when they bloom with their bright yellow flowers and when they go to seed and produce puffball seed heads. «jacksonprogress-argus, Jul 15»
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Natalie Coughlin dives in, again
Tree collards -- sometimes called tree kale -- don't go to seed, she explains, so the only way to start them is from cuttings. "They can live for 20 ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
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Gardening Q&A: What tree has yellow flowers and blooms in early …
If weeds do get the best of you, be sure to pull them before they go to seed to save yourself more problems next year. Mulch, newspaper, grass ... «Akron Beacon Journal, Jul 15»
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GARDEN MAIDEN: What the heck are scapes?
Garlic scapes shoot up from the plant as it gets ready to go to seed, something you don't want your plant to do if you want to have big bulbs. «The Times, Jul 15»
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Thinning vegetables
But plants like dill, cilantro and fennel, once they go to seed, they're actually beneficial for the garden. They attract insects to your garden that ... «WCAX, Jul 15»

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