单词	disuse
释义	disusedis‧use /dɪsˈjuːs/ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a result there was water, water everywhere except in the Bath House, which fell into disuse and subsequently burned. Following a period of disuse, its machinery and water wheel were removed. It was a commentary on heroism and how it has fallen into disuse. Now the workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand, and much of the plant is in disuse. The National Association of Gay Switchboards has fallen into disuse. The pattern is allowed to atrophy through disuse. The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s, and the bridge fell into disuse. Through simple disuse and lack of feedback, she may stop conjuring up stories. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorno longer being used► disused especially British a disused factory, mine, railway etc is old and not used any more: · The drugs were found in a disused warehouse.· They have been given a grant to convert the disused church into luxury flats. ► unused something that is unused has not yet been used or has not been used for a long time: · His old car sat in the garage, unused.· Batteries which are unused for long periods may have to be recharged.· Unused muscles can feel very sore when you start exercising. ► idle if machines or factories are idle , they are not being used: · stand/sit/lie idle: · Most of the factory stood idle during the strike.· The new machines may sit idle for months until they have been paid for.· Why is millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art equipment lying idle? ► gather dust if something such as a machine or a plan gathers dust , it is not being used, especially when it could be useful: · Some of the new equipment is just gathering dust because the staff have not been trained to use it.· The plans lie gathering dust in some government office. ► fall into disuse if something falls into disuse , people gradually stop using it because they no longer need or want it: · The canal system fell into disuse around the end of the nineteenth century.· When the old woman died, the house fell into disuse. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► fell into disuse  The building eventually fell into disuse. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► fall · Many of these local mills remain in name alone, having fallen into disuse and demolition.· Because of the problems with false prophecy, the gift of prophecy itself eventually fell into disuse and sometimes disrepute.· The National Association of Gay Switchboards has fallen into disuse.· As a result there was water, water everywhere except in the Bath House, which fell into disuse and subsequently burned.· The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s, and the bridge fell into disuse.· It was a commentary on heroism and how it has fallen into disuse.· It seems that the procedure, just outlined, for the creation of new criminal offences has fallen into disuse.· Many large-scale competitor data bases, especially those on mainframes, have fallen into disuse. Word family WORD FAMILYnounusageusedisusemisusereuseusefulness ≠ uselessnessuseradjectivereusableused ≠ unuseddisuseduseful ≠ uselessusable ≠ unusableverbusemisusereuseadverbusefully ≠ uselessly a situation in which something is no longer used:  The building eventually fell into disuse.
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