DISUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disuse mean? 

• DISUSE (noun)
  The noun DISUSE has 1 sense:

1. the state of something that has been unused and neglected

  Familiarity information: DISUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of something that has been unused and neglected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disuse; neglect

Context example:

the house was in a terrible state of neglect

Hypernyms ("disuse" is a kind of...):

declination; decline (a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disuse"):

omission (something that has been omitted)

 Context examples 

A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was gloated with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air; but here the place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)