Usually means: Lack of use; becoming unused.
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  1. disuse: Merriam-Webster
  2. disuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disuse, disuse: Wordnik
  7. disuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disuse: Wiktionary
  9. disuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disuse, disuse: Dictionary.com
  13. disuse (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Disuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. disuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. disuse: Rhymezone
  17. disuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. disuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. disuse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. disuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. disuse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. disuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. disuse: Legal dictionary

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  1. disuse: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disuse)

▸ noun:  The state of not being used; neglect.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cease the use of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.

Similar:
neglect, unusage, nonusage, nonuse, desuetude, inusitation, obsolescence, unservice, inoccupancy, disacquaintance, more...

Opposite:
use, utilization, activity, employment

Types:
neglect, dereliction, abandonment, disregard, more...

Phrases:
disuse atrophy, disuse osteoporosis, of disuse atrophy, atrophy of disuse bone cancellous, atrophy of disuse bone supporting, more...

Adjectives:
long, complete, total, general, gradual, entire, comparative, relative, prolonged, mere, partial

Colors:
    gray,     dusty rose,     faded blue,     rust,     mustard yellow, more...


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Similar:
neglect, unusage, nonusage, nonuse, desuetude, inusitation, obsolescence, unservice, inoccupancy, disacquaintance, more...

Opposite:
use, utilization, activity, employment

Types:
neglect, dereliction, abandonment, disregard, more...

Phrases:
disuse atrophy, disuse osteoporosis, of disuse atrophy, atrophy of disuse bone cancellous, atrophy of disuse bone supporting, cancellous, atrophy of disuse bone, cancellous atrophy of disuse bone, more...

Adjectives:
long, complete, total, general, gradual, entire, comparative, relative, prolonged, mere, partial

Colors:
    gray,     dusty rose,     faded blue,     rust,     mustard yellow, more...



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