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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary dis·use
DATE 15th century : to discontinue the use or practice of
DATE 15th century : cessation of use or practice English Etymology disuse disuse (n.) c.1400, from the verb (late 14c.), from O.Fr . desuser, from des- "not" + user "use."http://O.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 disuse dis·use / dis5ju:s / noun[U] a situation in which sth is no longer being used 不用；废弃: The factory fell into disuse twenty years ago. 这个工厂二十年前就废弃了。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English disuse noun VERB + DISUSE be in The workforce has shrunk to less than a thousand and much of the plant is in disuse. | fall into A new bridge was built ten years ago and the old one has fallen into disuse. PREP. from/through/with ~ Her muscles had become weak through disuse. PHRASES a period of disuse OLT disuse noun ⇨ neglect Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged disuse I. \“+\ transitive verb Etymology: Middle English disusen, from dis- (I) + usen to use — more at use 1. archaic : to make unaccustomed or unused : disaccustom 2. : to discontinue the use or practice of : discard , abandon — now used chiefly in the past participial form < a golf course long disused > < a disused initiation rite > < the baroque scroll pediment had been disused on exteriors before the revolution — Fiske Kimball > II. noun Etymology: dis- (I) + use : cessation of use, practice, or exercise : desuetude < intellectual vigor has been circumscribed by the disuse of the scholar's language — A.A.Hill > < the mine ultimately fell into disuse > < combat intelligence had atrophied by disuse — Shipley Thomas > < we should die of idiocy through disuse of our mental faculties if we did not fill our heads with romantic nonsense out of illustrated newspapers and novels and plays and films — G.B.Shaw > |
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