as in deserted
left unoccupied or unused
a disused warehouse that had become a den for drug dealers
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Recent Examples of disused
The easy route takes visitors along a disused rail line for a gentle jaunt in one of the Pacific Northwest's loveliest regions.
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Stacey Lastoe, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Victoria's body was later found in a disused shed in Brighton inside a shopping bag, the outlet reported.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
This edition’s commissions have taken over some of the town’s most striking and unusual locations, including a church built for the fishing community, a former customs house, a Martello Tower and a disused railway bridge.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
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Stacey Lastoe, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Victoria's body was later found in a disused shed in Brighton inside a shopping bag, the outlet reported.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
This edition’s commissions have taken over some of the town’s most striking and unusual locations, including a church built for the fishing community, a former customs house, a Martello Tower and a disused railway bridge.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disused
Adjective
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Vargas nodded at the nearly deserted river.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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Except for a few children kicking a ball and some chickens pecking the ground, the village seemed almost deserted.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Rogers is shopworker Polly Parrish, who gets mistakenly identified as the parent of an abandoned baby.—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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Thousands of abandoned and derelict vessels around the US pose environmental and navigational challenges.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This stretch of the park, an object of fascination for Urbano, contains an array of a hundred or so different models of public gaslights, now obsolete and semi-derelict.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Fans of dark storytelling will find cruel necromancers, derelict mansions and strange alchemies in this page-turning epic.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Officials believe the fire started in the occupied home and spread to the vacant home next door.—
Noelle Alviz-Gransee,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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No public update on the project has been released since 2023, and the land remains vacant.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Sátántangó’s desolate landscapes, dominated by mud, wind, and overcast skies, summoned a vision of earthly purgatory unrivaled in almost all of cinema.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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Thanksgiving is desolate with freezing rain.—
Allegra Goodman,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
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Eberle deposited the puck into the vacated cage with 35 seconds to play, dooming the Ducks with his second goal of the night.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
23 Dec. 2025
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Duncan, whose vacated conviction is still being reviewed by the Louisiana Supreme Court, was released after posting a $150,000 bond.—
JACK BROOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
28 Nov. 2025
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“Disused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disused. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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