Disuse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISUSE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to stop using
• To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
• To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
• stop using
NOUN:
• the state of not being used
• Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
• the state of something that has been unused and neglected
• state of being no longer used

Words related to DISUSE

disusage10 disused9 disuses8 disusing10

Words that contain DISUSE

disused9 disuses8

How to use DISUSE in a sentence

• These distinctions, although falling into disuse, are not even yet abolished, but still, with many others equally odious, disgrace the Carolinean statute book.
• The same has been in some degree the case in the Christian Church, where many consecrated jewels have been forgotten and fallen into disuse with time.
• It creaked as though it had grown rusty with disuse.
• I have, however, yet to see an example of this having been done by any of the Indians now living, and the custom must have fallen into disuse more than seventy years ago.
• The saddle creaked a rhythmic complaint of recent disuse.
• To a woman the art of managing men is much like the art of skating or swimming, however long it may lie in disuse, the trick, once learnt, is there to command.
• It had, however, never been really popular, and few objected to its gradual disuse.
• There are many other similar instances where the line of machine building has been quite parallel to the effects of use and disuse.
• Furthermore, we are all familiar with the opposite effects of disuse.
• So far, then, from needing to lay down any weapons, or disuse any methods in which he was practised, or learn or assume new habits of mind or strange modes of reasoning, Mr.
• He expected to find it difficult to do, because of long disuse of the faculty.
• Even this fell into disuse upon the rise of the new Nobility, of which we shall speak in the next chapter.
• Within the past sixty years or so this naive ceremony has fallen more and more into disuse.
• XCIX may be seen two ovens differing in size, one of which shows the manner in which the opening is blocked up with stone to keep out stray dogs during periods of disuse.
• The language of Spener and Francke, which was full of practical earnestness, came into disuse.
• But that, said May, was not because he lacked the power and the desire of love, but because his affections were withered by neglect or rusty from disuse.
• The battle now turns on the question whether modifications of either structure or instinct due to use or disuse are ever inherited, or whether they are not.
• In admitting use and disuse as freely as he did, he gave Lamarckians leverage for the overthrow of a system based ostensibly on the accumulation of fortunate accidents.
• As it is difficult to imagine that eyes, though useless, could be in any way injurious to animals living in darkness, I attribute their loss wholly to disuse.
• But this instinct retained by our chickens has become useless under domestication, for the mother-hen has almost lost by disuse the power of flight.
• But the swords of their descendants had grown rusty by disuse.
• I was in a cellar, which, apparently, had long been in disuse.
• Another alteration, which took place in the language of the Quakers was the disuse of the common names of the days of the week, and of those of the months of the year.
• Hence they determined upon the disuse of these words, and to put other names in their stead.

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