disused
/ˌdɪsˈjuːzd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of disuse
Example Sentences
- "But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,"
- "In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained."
- "And now Love sang: but his was such a song, So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free, As souls disused in death’s sterility May sing when the new birthday tarries long."
- "The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned To windy chaos, and we only find The garnered husks of his disusèd words."
- "The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat."
- "It was to assist in the filling-in of the tunnel on the disused Patricroft-Clifton Junction line, which was the scene of a disaster in 1953 when part, below some houses in Swinton, caved in."