Definition of disused
: no longer used or occupied : abandoned
- disused buildings
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Examples of disused in a Sentence
a disused warehouse that had become a den for drug dealers
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Lumber mills, disused for years, sit along the roads and streams that run through Humboldt’s thickly forested hills.
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In the autumn of 1964, 57 people from the East escaped through a tunnel that started in a disused courtyard bathroom.
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Plastic material's ubiquity in packaging has left the world literally swimming in disused bottles, bags and wraps.
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Plastic packaging has left the world swimming in disused bottles, bags and wraps.
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This tranquil property, once owned by a wealthy family of German carpenters, now has their disused farm tools — rustic wooden troughs, spindles, brass scales — scattered around as décor.
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Inhabitants can’t drink the water in nearby Cobalt Lake, and a shaft in the disused public school was only recently capped.
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Workers scooped out the soggy earth around a disused dry dock, leaving the concrete shell intact.
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Eurasia Group estimates that Iraq taking control in Kirkuk could cut shipments by 450,000 barrels daily until the federal government repairs its own disused pipeline to Turkey or reaches a revenue-sharing deal with the Kurds.
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First Known Use of disused
1611
disused Synonyms
Synonyms
abandoned, derelict, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forsaken, rejected, vacant, vacated, void;
Near Antonyms
reclaimed, recovered, redeemed, rescued, retrieved, salvaged, saved;
Related Words
ignored, neglected, unattended, untended;
castaway, cast-off, discarded, jettisoned, junked, refuse, waste;
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