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.

1 . disuse

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected

Example in sentence:

dis dis- disabilities disability disable disabled disablement disabling disabuse disabused

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