verb
definition
To cease the use of.
definition
To disaccustom.
example
He was disused to hard work.
adjective
definition
No longer in use.
Examples of disused in a Sentence
This line, now disused, had itself superseded the overland route organized by Lieut.
Dalkey Island, lying off the town, has an ancient ruined chapel, of the history of which nothing is certainly known, and a disused battery, which protected the harbour, a landing-place of some former importance.
The town is ancient; there is a disused convent church with tombs of the 17th century, and the Vor-Frelsers-Kirke has a carved pulpit of the same period.
Its public buildings include a court-house, the prison for the south-west of Scotland, and an observatory and museum, housed in a disused windmill.
It was here that, on his invitation, James Watt constructed a model of his steam-engine, which was tested in a now disused colliery.
Disused stone quarries in the side of the hill are used as dwellings by the inhabitants.
The disused airfield is still apparent on the right.
The disused quarry is on the right hand side.
The Wilts and Berks canal, joining the Thames at Abingdon, is disused.
The metric system is now in use in the greater part of the civilized world, but some of the measures retain the names of old disused measures.
After a short briefing you set off for the disused aerodrome to complete the off-road handling skills section of the schedule.
She crossed a disused railroad line tugging her cream-coloured, baby alpaca coat about her ankles.
The speakers waxed lyrically about the fresh water aquatic conservation center, which they hope to bring to a disused clay pit near Bedford.
Food is stored in underground burrows or occasionally in disused bird nests.
Sometimes they roost in the lining of tall disused industrial chimneys and other hollow walls including cavities in bridges.
This piled in either a disused silage clamp, or taken to the field and placed in the windrow.
Lower than the present roof corbels are large corbels, disused, from the the 14thC roof.
The few cottagers living in Wensleydale emptied their closets down a disused mine shaft.
The site is a steep sided disused railroad cutting consisting of limestone grassland with scrub.
You come to a bridge over the now disused Great North of Scotland railroad line, which once served all the coastal towns.
The locks were abandoned in 1966, have been largely disused since 1962.
A number of the playing fields, e.g. Park Avenue, are currently disused.
A large kitchen, long disused linked to a strangely cool room used a s a pantry occupied one segment of the level.
As shown above, the United Kingdom has an old, mostly disused blasphemy law which is rarely evoked.
At Leagram Farm, Chipping, organic cheeses are now manufactured from within the confines of another once disused barn.
The site had lain disused for almost 50 years, during which time a process of self-regeneration had occurred.
The forge is also shown on Bowen's Map of 1778 bt the Tithe map of 1839 shows that it had become disused.
Goods traffic ceased in May 1962, but like many such buildings, the shed stood disused for many years.
Marischal College has been empty for some years, and is likely to remain disused indefinitely if ACC doesn't move in.
A small disused dock exists where the original quayside was.
The Iron Road was installed along a stretch of disused railroad embankment deep in the Forest.
There are a few disused mineral extraction sites adjacent to the railroad line.
The adverse impact of the cooker hood could be enhanced by the stack effect of warm effluent in the disused fluent in the disused flue.
The garden demonstrated the wide variety of plant material that can become established in the seemingly inhospitable habitat of a disused railroad line.
Examples include woodland clearings and rides, calcareous grassland, coastal landslips, abandoned quarries, disused railroad cuttings, and limestone pavements.
The cairn is referred to as the limekiln Cairn as it is situated next to a disused limekiln.
In more recent years the village was an important lead mining center and Carsington Pasture is still littered with disused lead mines.
On the hills southwest of Boxmoor station is a grass common called Rough Down, on which are two disused chalk pits.
In 1880 the brick roundhouse of the disused mill was converted into a Chapel of Ease to St Mary's Parish Church, Reigate.
October 2001 The Boulmer Venom An account of how a Venom was force landed on one of the disused runways at Boulmer in 1953.
In the immediate foreground are the now disused sidings of Blue Circle (Portland Cement ).
When Pat suddenly stumbles on a disused manhole behind a washing machine, she is hopeful she has found a solution.
This village, which is situated under a disused viaduct, is a true gem.
Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.
From the period of the rediscovery of the catacombs in the 16th century till comparatively recent times a gigantic fallacy prevailed, repeated by writer after writer, identifying the Christian burial-places with disused sand-pits.
Thus the alternative use of cope or chasuble (vestment) is allowed at the celebration of Holy Communion - an obvious compromise; of the amice, girdle (cingulum), maniple and stole there is not a word, 2 and the inference to be drawn is that these were now disused.
In England, for instance, the chancels were for the most part disused after the Reformation (see Harrison, op. cit.), but presently they came into use again, and on the Catholic revival in the Church of England in the 19th century it is certain that the medieval churches exercised an influence by giving a sense of fitness, which might otherwise have been lacking, to the restoration of medieval ritual.
During the couse of a year, the author walked along ten disused railroad in Britain.
I sat on the ramparts of a disused castle.
Baghdad and Damascus also want to reopen an oil pipeline between them, disused since 1982.