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disuse
/dɪsˈjuːs/
verb 2noun 1
Collocations
4(noun.)
VERB + DISUSE
be in
The old railway line fell into disuse after the new highway opened.
fall into
The old railway line gradually fell into disuse after the highway opened nearby.
PREP
from/through/with ~
The old factory fell into decay from years of disuse.
PHRASES
a period of disuse
Definitions
noun
1
The state of not being used; neglect.
The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.
The decline and eventual closing of the various industrial undertakings and the non-renewal of the L.N.W.R. lease led to the railway falling into disuse, and most of it has now been lifted.
verb
1
To cease the use of.
Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.
1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, https://books.google.ca/books?id=TKvkAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.
2
To disaccustom.
He was disused to hard work.
Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, I lose my end: for here as well as I A desperate may live, and a coward die.
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Synonyms
noun — the state of something that has been unused and neglected
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.
Wiktionary02
The decline and eventual closing of the various industrial undertakings and the non-renewal of the L.N.W.R. lease led to the railway falling into disuse, and most of it has now been lifted.
Wiktionary03
Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused
Wiktionary04
1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, https:/
Wiktionary05
He was disused to hard work.
Wiktionary06
The vocabulary presents several words which are common to the modern Iberian languages but have fallen into disuse in Italian.
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