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RUN TO SEED

Synonyms within Context: RUN TO SEED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Age

Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: RUN TO SEED

Expression using "RUN TO SEED": To run to seed. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RUN TO SEED

Language Translations for "RUN TO SEED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تدهور (break down, breakdown, crumble, decadence, decay, deteriorate, deterioration, drop, go to pot, go to the bad, impairment, retrogradation, sour, suffer, tumble), ‏بذر البذور. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

занемарявам се, прецъфтявам (overblow, seed), давам семе (seed). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozpadat se (crumble, decay), vadnout (droop, fade, flag, wilt, wither), chátrat (break up, dilapidate, go to the bad). (various references)

   

Danish

  

loebe i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up), gaa i froe (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zaadschieten (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tehdä siementä (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

French

  

monter en graine (to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

German

  

verwildere. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φυλλοφυώ (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up), αναπτύσσω φύλλα (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"ת ון (atrophy, decadent, degenerate, languish, waste away), ל"פסיק לפרוח, ל""ר"ר (deteriorate, go on the skid, roll away, slither, worsen), ל בול (degenerate, fade, perish, wear away, wilt, wither). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felgyorsul (gather speed, speed up, to fetch headway, to gather headway, to gather pace, to gather way, to gear, to speed up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

germogliare (bud, burgeon, germinate, offset, shoot, sprout), germinare (germinate), andare in seme (to go to seed, to run to seed, to run up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unray otay eedsay

   

Romanian

  

se pãrãgini (go to seed), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, rot, ruin). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пойти в семена. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zapustiti se, prestati sa cvetanjem. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

deteriorarse (deteriorate, go off). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vissna (decay, fade, wilt, wither). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tohuma kaçmak (go to seed), kuvvetten düşmek (droop, go to seed, lose one's power), güçten düşmek (become weak, fade, peter out, wilt), eski gücünü kaybetmek (go to seed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

піти в насіння, прийти в занепад. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

hedeg (fly), ehedeg (fly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RUN TO SEED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deuterons.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: dentures, deuteron, roundest, sederunt, tonsured, underset, unrested, unsorted.

-2 letters: denotes, denture, detours, dourest, endorse, endures, enduros, ensured, erodent, estrone, neuters, oersted, outseen, redouts, resound, retuned, retunes, rodents, rousted, snorted, snouted, sounder, tenders, tenours, tenured, tenures, teredos, tonsure, tureens, undoers, undrest.

-3 letters: denote, denser, desert, deters, detour, donees, donuts, doters, douser, drones, duster, enders.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-o-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: tremendous, uncorseted, undertones, unescorted, unforested, unrestored.

 

+2 letters: countersued, documenters, groundsheet, tenpounders, unstoppered.

 

+3 letters: beardtongues, counterposed, deuteranopes, deuterations, groundsheets, housetrained, obdurateness, outbreedings, outsiderness, rediscounted, reeducations, reintroduces, rotundnesses, thunderstone, tremendously, typefounders, underclothes, underreports, understories, uprootedness.

 

+4 letters: adventuresome, conductresses, counterorders, counterpoised, countersigned, counterstated, countertrades, countertrends, deconstructed, deregulations, desultoriness, deuteragonist, deuteranopias, dexterousness, documentaries, neuropeptides, outwardnesses, overdocuments, reconstituted, reconstructed, requisitioned, serendipitous, superordinate, thundershower, thunderstones, thunderstroke, unconsecrated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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