disuse

[dis-yoos, dis-yooz]

noun

1. discontinuance of use or practice.

   Traditional customs are falling into disuse.

verb (used with object)

disused, disusing 

1. to cease to use.

disuse

/ dɪsˈjuːs /

noun

1. the condition of being unused; neglect (often in the phrases in or into disuse )

Word History and Origins

Origin of disuse¹

1375–1425; late Middle English. See dis- ¹, use

Example Sentences

Khalusha was the prime suspect in the murder of more than 40 women whose mutilated bodies were discovered in a disused quarry that became a dumpsite in the capital, Nairobi.

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My Story - From Swansea to Stacey And Everything In Between in a disused pub car park, outside a cricket club in the middle of the night and in a car outside her house.

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Police and locals conducted extensive searches in the surrounding countryside – with potholers descending into some of the disused mineshafts with which the area is dotted.

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Some of the rubbish will have to be dug up and removed because the disused quarry is not an appropriate place to store industrial waste.

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That could include swapping some hotels for former military barracks or disused warehouses, as the health minister Stephen Kinnock suggested earlier on Sky News.

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