to disuse

Examples

• All

• The old factory has been disused for years, leaving it covered in dust.

• The community center was disused after budget cuts, and the building fell into disrepair.

• This is one of our disused tech distribution centers.

  Dream Hacker (2025)

• The one place we were forbidden from going was a big disused barn behind the community building.

  Fiction book (2000)

• At Derduk, the road south became a disused track.

  Fiction book (1993)

• There was some disused land where all the bad kids and strays hung out.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The fire, which has now been blazing for two hours, is thought to have started in the old disused incinerator.

  Psych:9 (2010)

• Riker shot forward, gaining speed on the algae-slick surface of the disused ramp.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The room is about three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Stan turned his back and walked into the open expanse of the disused coal merchant's yard.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

P

to phase out

vsto disuse

31 4.2

To stop using something slowly over time

ceases use without implying a gradual staged process

R

to retire

vsto disuse

28 2.8

Take something out of use when it is no longer needed

stops using something without implying obsolescence

D

to dispense with

vsto disuse

24 6.3

To stop using something because you do not need it

stops using without stressing a deliberate choice

G

to go by the wayside

vsto disuse

• Informal

5 6.9

To stop being used or followed

is an active stopping rather than being ignored

Antonyms

U

to use

∞ 1.0

To put something to work for a purpose

U

to utilize

• Formal

224 4.9

To use something for a particular purpose

How Used

to neglect

256 3.8

to disuse

2 4.2

to abandon

773 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology