Crossword clues for disuse
disuse
- Neglect of French entertainer heartless
- Neglect daughter, one son gets help
- Neglect ache crossing South America
- State of abandonment
- What obsolete things fall into
- What an iPod may fall into now that everyone just streams music
- Rust cause, perhaps
- Issued (anag)
- Fate of some old ways
- Become neglected, fall into ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disuse \Dis*use"\, n. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy.
--Addison.
Church discipline then fell into disuse.
--Southey.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The state of not being used; neglect. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cease the use of. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To disaccustom.
WordNet
n. the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: neglect]
Usage examples of "disuse".
Another was lockkeeper of a disused lock, but he had, nonetheless, the distinction of wearing a uniform cap.
He was a lopsided caricature of a man, one side of his body stunted, muscles atrophied with disuse, the other side overdeveloped to make up for the paralysis that forced him to depend on it so heavily.
And I have conceived a new cover spell of peculiar efficacy, which I shall erect over us as soon as my talent recovers from the years of disuse.
After this manner villenage went gradually into disuse throughout the more civilized parts of Europe: the interest of the master, as well as that of the slave, concurred in this alteration.
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.
Habit in producing constitutional differences, and use in strengthening, and disuse in weakening and diminishing organs, seem to have been more potent in their effects.
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.
In some cases we might easily put down to disuse modifications of structure which are wholly, or mainly, due to natural selection.
As modifications of corporeal structure arise from, and are increased by, use or habit, and are diminished or lost by disuse, so I do not doubt it has been with instincts.
With the decline of Exalted discipline, however, the Sentients had fallen into disuse.
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.