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disuse - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'disuse' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Disuse [ n.]
- Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
2 . Disuse [ v. t.]
- To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
- To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.

Meaning of 'disuse' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . disuse [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
Example in sentence:
  • the house was in a terrible state of neglect