disuse
/dɪsˈjuːs/
disuse noun: the state of not being used; neglect.
Noun
disuse (uncountable)
- 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.1957 October, William J. Skillern, “The Brynmawr & Western Valleys Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 697
- Synonyms:
- desuetude, obsoleteness, unuse, disusage, inusitation, obsolescence, obsoletion, superannuation
Verb
disuse (third-person singular simple present disuses, present participle disusing, simple past and past participle disused)
- 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.1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote
- 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.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...
- 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.1597, John Donne, The Calm, lines 39–44
disuse meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
disuse in Tamil
- வழக்கொழி, வழங்காமை
disuse in Urdu
- disuse
- استعمال نہ کرنا isteâmāl nah karnā
disuse in Malayalam
- നിഷ്പ്രയോഗം, നടപ്പില്ലായ്മ, ഉപയോഗമില്ലായ്മ, അപ്രചാരം
disuse in Kannada
- ಬಳಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದಿಕೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- disuse in Vietnamese
- bỏ dụng
Synonyms of disuse
Forms of disuse
| third-person singular present | disuses |
|---|---|
| present participle | disusing |
| past participle | disused |
| past | disused |
Origin of disuse
From Old French desuser, equivalent to dis- + use.
Words formed from disuse
Words that rhyme with disuse
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- cruse
- diffuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about disuse
- What does disuse mean?
- Disuse means the state of not being used; neglect.
- What is disuse in Tamil?
- Disuse in Tamil is வழக்கொழி, வழங்காமை. See Disuse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disuse?
- Disuse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disuse?
- Disuse is pronounced /dɪsˈjuːs/.
Words near disuse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disuse (page history and authors); disuse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); استعمال نہ کرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); disuse (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disuse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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