Disuse

Definition: Disuse

Disuse

Noun

1. The state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect".

Date "disuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Disuse

Synonym: neglect (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desuetude	Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.
	Noun: desuetude, disusage; obsolescence, disuse; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation; newness to; new brooms.
Disuse	Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.
	Noun: forbearance, abstinence; disuse; relinquishment; desuetude; (want of habit); disusage.
Relinquishment	Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.
	Renounce; (abjure); forego, have done with, drop; disuse; discard; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disuse

English words defined with "disuse": atrophy ♦ Court-baron ♦ desuetude, Digamma, Disacquaintance, Disusage, Disusing ♦ Flat-cap ♦ Highlands ♦ Imprescriptible, Inusitation ♦ obsolesce, obsolescence ♦ Post-captain ♦ resurrection ♦ Statute merchant ♦ Wager of battel, Wager of battle, wasting, wasting away. (references)

Specialty definitions using "disuse": Bellows ♦ carrier scanner, connector conspiracy ♦ Pocket Judgment ♦ true silk. (references)

Etymologies containing "disuse": Desuete, Disacquaintance, Disusage ♦ Inusitation ♦ Obsolescent. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the American Civil War (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Leonardo Da Vinci	Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
	Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was falling into disuse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Eventually the joints become stiff from disuse, and the skin, muscles, and bone atrophy. (references)
Economic History	Nigeria	There are 3,500 kilometers (2,180 mi.) of railroad track, which fell into near total disuse but are now slowly coming back into service after extensive renovation by a Chinese company. (references)
Trade	Argentina	The drawback mechanism, which is gradually falling into disuse because of its cumbersome nature, was established to refund various import charges. (references)
Worker Rights	Liberia	During the year, the Government strictly enforced the union registration requirements that fell into disuse during the war. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Disuse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.01% of the time. "Disuse" is used about 101 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.01%	100	32,668
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.99%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	101	N/A

Expressions using "disuse": fall into disuse ♦ falling into disuse ♦ in disuse. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "disuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nxjerr nga përdorimi, nuk përdor më, mospërdorim (desuetude). (various references)

Arabic		‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, neglect, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏عدم إستعمال. (various references)

Bulgarian		отвикване, преставам да употребявам, излизане от употреба (obsolescense). (various references)

Czech		nepouživatelnost. (various references)

Farsi		متروکه (Obsolete), ترک کردن (Defect, Desert, Evacuate, Leave, Pullout, Relinquish), عدم استعمال . (various references)

Finnish		joutua pois käytännöstä (fall into disuse, go out of use). (various references)

French		désuétude. (various references)

German		nichtgebrauch (non-utilization). (various references)

Greek		ξεσυνηθίζω, αχρηστεύω (disable, incapacitate, nullify, supersede), αχρηστία (bootlessness, desuetude, needlessness, obsolescence, obsoleteness, rustiness, uselessness). (various references)

Hebrew		אי שמוש. (various references)

Hungarian		nem használ valamit, leszoktat (dishabituate, to cure, to wean), használatlanság. (various references)

Italian		disuso (abeyance, desuetude, obsolescence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不使�"� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふしよう. (various references)

Manx		neuymmyd (inutility). (various references)

Pig Latin		isuseday

Portuguese		desuso (desuetude), desusar. (various references)

Romanian		deşucheat (dissolute, gay, libertin, loose, upturning), nu mai folosi, nefolosire, neîntrebuinţare. (various references)

Russian		выход из употребления. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neupotreba. (various references)

Spanish		desuso (desuetude). (various references)

Swedish		komma ur bruk (fall into disuse, fall out of use, go out of use). (various references)

Turkish		terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), kullanmayı bırakmak, kullanmamak, kullanılmama, bırakma (abandonment, exposure, leaving, never say die, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, surrender, withdrawal). (various references)

Ukrainian		відучувати (wean), невживання (abstention, abstinence), перестати вживати (obsolete). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự không dùng đến, sự bỏ đi (deletion). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	situm, situs. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disuse": disused, disuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dassu, dause, decuse, Desse, Dicksee, diesese, disassoc, discue, discuse, disese, diseuse, disgsd, diskurse, Disoss, disowe, Disque, disques, disquise, disse, dissey, disush, Ditsums, dssun, Liseuse. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disuse" (pronounced di'syuw"s)
5	-i' s y uw" s	misuse.
3	-y uw" s	abuse, diffuse, disabuse, excuse, profuse, reuse, use.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: issued.
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: issue, sides.
	-2 letters: dies, diss, dues, ides, seis, side, suds, sued, sues, used, uses.
	-3 letters: die, dis, due, dui, eds, ess, ids, sei, sis, sue, use.
	-4 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, si, us.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: diseuse, disused, disuses, gussied, misused, niduses, studies, subside, sudsier, tissued, upsides.
	+2 letters: cuspides, desirous, diestrus, diffuses, dinguses, disabuse, disburse, discuses, diseuses, disguise, disputes, dissuade, diureses, diuresis, druidess, duelists, duskiest, dustiest, feudists, fissured, insureds, outsides, radiuses, reissued, residues, squished, studdies, studiers, sturdies, subedits, subideas, subsided, subsider, subsides, sudaries, sudsiest, suicides, sulfides, sundries, surmised, suspired, unissued, unkissed.
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