disused
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4.5
- adjective
- /dɪsˈjuːzd/
:
abandonado
- The old train station is now a disused building that has fallen into disrepair.
We were riding in the convoy to the stadium and on the left, all you saw was disused, empty, shattered steel mills.
- We were riding in the convoy to the stadium and on the left, all you saw was disused, empty, shattered steel mills.
- The citywide programme invites neighbors to request that disused traffic circles, triangles and streets be turned into pedestrian plazas.
Examples
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There's a disused warehouse behind the flats on your left.
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Kat's boyfriend is taking her to Paris for the weekend and mine is taking me to a disused quarry!
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Looks like a disused warehouse of some kind.
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Their coach picked a disused warehouse out of town and kept the press and public out.
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They got away going through that old disused mine.
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"lt's a disused line that was closed down in 1948."
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They are in a disused subway station, deep under the Wall.
Fiction book (1994) -
It occupied the grounds of a disused church, the ancestor of one of the new brick constructions in town.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the early 1960s, I regularly used to go to Top of the Pops when it was recorded in a disused church building on Dickenson Road, Rusholme, Manchester.
Blog text (30) -
These are often conversions of disused chapels or churches, or the conversion of factories, cinemas, or other commercial premises to places of worship.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
93
5.8
No longer used or made because something newer replaces it
78
5.0
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
34
4.4
No longer current or in use
32
8.2
Very old and not useful or suitable now
30
7.0
No longer used or working, like a company that closed
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1.0
A thing like a room or machine that is not active now
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7.5
A place or building that is abandoned and in very bad condition from lack of use
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2.5
Not being used or working now
11
6.5
No longer fashionable or useful
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2.8
Left empty and not used, often by people who lived there
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9.9
Old and no longer useful because of age
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5.6
Not used and left empty
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4.6
Not working or currently not in use
No longer made or offered
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
The word disused starts with dis- meaning 'not' and ends with used from 'use', so it literally means 'not used any more'. That's why we call a building or machine disused when it was used before but is now left or empty.