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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Expression using "RUN TO SEED": To run to seed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) пойти в семена. (various references) zapustiti se, prestati sa cvetanjem. (various references) deteriorarse (deteriorate, go off). (various references) vissna (decay, fade, wilt, wither). (various references) 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) піти в насіння, прийти в занепад. (various references) hedeg (fly), ehedeg (fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Expressions 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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