Definitions for disuse

disuse dis·use

Spelling: [noun dis-yoos; verb dis-yooz]
IPA: /noun dɪsˈyus; verb dɪsˈyuz/

Disuse is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in disuse (deissu).

Definitions for disuse

noun

  1. discontinuance of use or practice:

verb (used with object)

  1. to cease to use.

Origin of disuse

1375-1425; late Middle English. See dis-1, use

Examples for disuse

At the central port, cranes dangle in disuse and buildings open to the sky.

In many cases habit or use and disuse have probably come into play.

The use of the pronoun, the disuse of the grammar pulled him up short.

As a result, we have no organs of hearing, for they have been atrophied from ages of disuse.

He also admits that  change of habits and food, use and disuse, are factors.

Thomas Jefferson was already complaining in 1782 that the study of Greek and Latin was “going into disuse in Europe.”

Since the disuse of print, opticians have mostly gone to the poor-house.

The results of this method were so uncertain that the practice has fallen into disuse.

Yes, they screwed up badly, maybe because their investigative skill set is so rusty from disuse.

Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.

Word Value for disuse
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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