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disuse

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dis·use  (ds-ys)
n.
The state of not being used or of being no longer in use.
disuse
Noun
the state of being neglected or no longer used; neglect
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Noun1.disuse - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
neglect
declination, decline - a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
omission - something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions"
Translations
Spanish disuse [dɪsˈjuːs] n to fall into disuse → caer en desuso
French disuse [dɪsˈjuːs] n to fall into disuse → tomber en désuétude
German disuse [dɪsˈjuːs] n to fall into disuse → nicht mehr benutzt werden
Italian disuse [dɪsˈjuːs] n to fall into disuse → cadere in disuso
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Yet, that I hold the advantages of the mode of publication to outweigh its disadvantages, may be easily believed of one who revived it in the Pickwick Papers after long disuse, and has pursued it ever since.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
It is probable that this and other superfluous incidents disappeared after the Alexandrian arrangement of the poems in the Cycle, either as the result of some later recension, or merely through disuse.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
This set me in a muse, whether his timidity arose from too long a disuse of any human company; and whether perhaps, upon a little trial, it might pass off, and my uncle change into an altogether different man.
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