4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Disuse \Dis*use"\, n. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse. [1913 Webster] The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Church discipline then fell into disuse. --Southey. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Disuse \Dis*use"\ (?; see {Dis-}), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disusing}.] 1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. [1913 Webster] 2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." --Donne. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: disuse n : the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: {neglect}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 43 Moby Thesaurus words for "disuse": abandonment, abjure, absentation, antiquation, casting away, cessation, come off, cut out, desist, desuetude, discontinue, drop, evacuation, fogyishness, forsaking, give over, give up, have done with, jettison, jettisoning, leave off, leaving, let go, nol-pros, not pursue with, old-fashionedness, old-fogyishness, out-of-dateness, pulling out, put behind one, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, staleness, stodginess, stop, stuffiness, superannuation, throwing overboard, unfashionableness, waive, withdrawal
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