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Disuse meaning
The state of not being used; neglect.
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Example sentences (20)
After two years of disuse, Ross Hall will reopen its doors in the 2026-2027 academic year as a boutique hotel.
Gradually, the word “Negro” began to fall into disuse, and the American media totally abandoned the word by the middle 1980s.
Our educational system today only sharpens the head to near-pin end quality and this is even rare but it also makes the possessor’s limb atrophied by long disuse.
The depots falling apart in disuse and closed when it matters most stimulate rage from Malawians who expect the State-owned firm to be active during the harvesting season as well as when hunger bites.
After some time this chapel fell into disuse and was desecrated in 1659; it was replaced by another chapel on the same site in 1741.
A large swimming pool at the centre of the hotel's open-air bar has fallen into disuse and the water in the pool has turned green from what we suspect to be algae infestation.
Years of disuse and a lack of maintenace allowed oyster shells to accumulate along the ocean pool walls, posing a hazard to swimmers.
From the accounts of a few regulars at the beach, after the sparrow enclosure fell into disuse, the sparrows struck this patch off their pit-stops map.
Mr. Magdum said that for several years, large portions of the bungalow fell into disuse as the main activities of the NFAI had been shifted to the adjoining building.
Back in 2004, when the station fell into disuse following the commissioning of the Vallarpadam container terminus and the damage of a railway bridge, the manually-run antique clock stopped telling the time too.
In the elderly subjects there was a difference in single muscle fibre response to disuse, a more pronounced loss of muscle mass and a change in how muscle contraction is controlled by the nervous system compared to young individuals.
Light to moderate exercise is mainly encouraged to keep most seniors strong and to prevent disuse atrophy caused by a lack of muscle use.
The port lost its importance when Lord Cromer, consul-general of Egypt, ordered the construction of Port Sudan to the north, a move that made Suakin fall into disuse and forgotten by the flow of history.
This loss of muscle power caused by disuse can be especially detrimental in the elderly.
While many of the laws have fallen into disuse, the fact they are on the books encourages discrimination, Ms Sarah said.
According to this hypothesis, the fused, transparent eyelids of snakes are thought to have evolved to combat marine conditions (corneal water loss through osmosis), and the external ears were lost through disuse in an aquatic environment.
Although it enjoyed a relatively high level of literacy, Baybayin gradually fell into disuse in favor of the Latin alphabet taught by the Spaniards during their rule.
An earlier tendency was to repurpose older words; that has fallen into disuse (e.
As clarinets improved, the chalumeau fell into disuse, and these notes became known as the chalumeau register.
As the move from rope to wire happened, the specific length associated with a cable fell into disuse.