Crossword clues for disused
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disuse \Dis*use"\ (?; see Dis-), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disused; p. pr. & vb. n. Disusing.]
To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. ``Disuse me from . . . pain.''
--Donne.
Wiktionary
a. no longer in use
WordNet
adj. no longer in use; "obsolete words" [syn: obsolete]
Usage examples of "disused".
Another was lockkeeper of a disused lock, but he had, nonetheless, the distinction of wearing a uniform cap.
One dark and disused chamber proved to lead into another, through a succession of open archways, and El took care to keep out of sight of anyone glancing back, and freeze whenever the sounds ahead ceased.
One of the blokes from the sangars at the SF base reported that he had seen somebody running up the disused railway.
All that old man needed to do was stand there in the shadow of a disused boatshed, waiting.
There were disused rafts scattered up and down the beaches where the Iraiina camped, not yet disassembled for timber or firewood.
The labourer has little else to do but to chop up disused hop-poles into long fagots with a hand-bill--in other counties a bill-hook.
It has been estimated that as many as five thousand or more homeless people have lived in the vast warren of underground tracks, subway tunnels, ancient aqueducts, coal tunnels, old sewers, abandoned stations and waiting rooms, disused gas mains, old machine rooms, and other spaces that riddle underground Manhattan.
They were going down in the lift of the disused air-raid shelter which was situated in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
We knew that the local fascists, a collection of brutes who made the German Army seem like the Peace Corps, met in the old, disused church, the place they called the Chiesa Nuova.
The dust the vehicles had disturbed had settled on the trees on either side of the chaung, whitening them until they bore the appearance of a disused indoor television lot.
The dust the vehicles had disturbed had settled on the trees on either side of the chaung, whitening them until they bore the appearance of a disused indoor television lot.
I climbed two stories quickly, chimneying between a disused fractional distillation stack and a cooling tower.
Pieter, now disused since the Remonstrants had fallen into such bad odour after the death of Olden Barneveld and the treachery of his sons.
We were parked in a garbage-strewn alley in back of what looked like a disused auto court.
Even the non-mageborn sasenna of the Church felt it, and as Antryg led them through boiler rooms and hypocausts and disused staircases, they kept looking behind them as if subliminally aware of the random stirrings Antryg could so clearly see moving in the gloom that closed in behind.