单词	disused
释义	disuseddis‧used /ˌdɪsˈjuːzd◂/ adjective [usually before noun] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The drugs were found in a disused warehouse. They have been given a grant to convert the disused church into luxury flats. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale. Home territory is the disused runway at the Dalton Barracks in Abingdon. I parted some grass and wondered why Cawthorne had bothered to run electric and telephone cables to a disused toilet for farmhands. Seven people were arrested for public order offences at the illegal party, whiCH was held in a disused colliery near Cinderford. The organisation wants to turn the disused school into a community centre offering religious, educational and leisure facilities. There was no bubbling of water from inside, and the culvert seemed to be disused and silted up with debris. Valleys in the Yorkshire Dales are scattered with dozens of these field barns, virtually all disused. 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 CORPUSNOUN► quarry · They looked down into the big disused quarry. ► railway · The route is waymarked throughout its length and uses footpaths, sections of disused railway line and some minor roads.· They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.· Car blaze: Firemen attended a car fire on a disused railway line near Letch Lane, Stockton.· Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad. Word family WORD FAMILYnounusageusedisusemisusereuseusefulness ≠ uselessnessuseradjectivereusableused ≠ unuseddisuseduseful ≠ uselessusable ≠ unusableverbusemisusereuseadverbusefully ≠ uselessly a disused building, railway, mine etc is no longer used
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