Citations:go to seed

Verb: to deteriorate

 * 1986, Shiva Naipaul, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces, page 38:
 * Her looks had gone to seed, though it was still possible to detect vestiges of her girlish beauty.
 * 1996, Caroline Llewellyn, False light, page 75:
 * One of his more recent, and less friendly, interviewers had written that in late middle age Finn's was the face of a "bare ruined choirboy." Dana saw now what he meant. The boyish good looks had gone to seed: the full-lipped mouth was a libertine's, the pouchy cheeks were broken-veined, [...]
 * 2002, Helen Campell, The Blue Yonder Inn, page 214:
 * As for Leighton, she'd reached a decision. She wasn't going back to him. Period. He'd wasted himself, let his looks go to seed, broke her heart [...]