disuse
verb
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Definition of disuse
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disuse
noun
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Synonyms & Antonyms for disuse
Synonyms: Noun
desuetude, idleness, inactivity
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of disuse in a Sentence
Noun
The room was dusty from disuse. since the car has experienced years of disuse, starting it up won't be easyRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Sinhalese power retreated to the southwest of the island, abandoning the Rajarata region, and the former administrative centers, including Sigiriya, started to fall into disuse. — National Geographic, "The 'Lion Fortress' of Sri Lanka was swallowed by the jungle," 3 Sep. 2019 The law had not fallen into disuse; a man had been sentenced to a ten-month term in 2012 for facetiously comparing a famous monk to a pasta dish. — The Economist, "Blasphemy laws are quietly vanishing in liberal democracies," 25 Aug. 2019 Over the years, the structures and murals of Storyland fell into disuse. — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, "Rediscovering Storyland: SF Children’s Zoo’s magical beginnings 60 years ago," 3 July 2019 Storage systems in cities have fallen into disuse; aquifers under farmland are depleted year by year faster than the monsoons can refill them. — The Economist, "The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future," 27 June 2019 The conformal bootstrap, like the original bootstrap more than a decade earlier, fell into disuse. — Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’," 23 Feb. 2017 After years in disuse, Gia Hoa Ryan revived the building as an events and cultural space. — Jordyn Grzelewski, cleveland.com, "Hawken School scraps plans for West Side early-childhood center, sells Gordon Square property," 7 June 2019 But the Southeast Asian country’s trains gradually fell into disuse following the rise of the Khmer Rouge, a genocidal agrarian regime that killed an estimated 20% of Cambodia’s population between 1975 and 1979, many at the infamous Killing Fields. — Eli Meixler / Phnom Penh, Time, "Riding the Rails: Phnom Penh's Airport Train Is a Milestone for Cambodia," 4 June 2018 The good news is that the heart can bounce back after disuse. — Alice Park, Time, "You Can Reverse the Effects of Being a Couch Potato, But Here’s What It’ll Take," 8 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'disuse.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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