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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disuse \Dis*use"\ (?; see {Dis-}), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disusing}.]
1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. ''Disuse me from . . . pain.'' --Donne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disuse \Dis*use"\, noun Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. --Addison.
Church discipline then fell into disuse. --Southey.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disuse
noun: the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: {neglect}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "disuse": abandonment, abjure, absentation, antiquation, casting away, cessation, come off, cut out, desist, desuetude, discontinue, drop, evacuation, fogyishness, forsaking, give over, give up, have done with, jettison, jettisoning, leave off, leaving, let go, nol-pros, not pursue with, old-fashionedness, old-fogyishness, out-of-dateness, pulling out, put behind one, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, staleness, stodginess, stop, stuffiness, superannuation, throwing overboard, unfashionableness, waive, withdrawal
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