disuse

consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; rubbish (useless)., mountain in labor.

spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse., cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander., "waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a weel; labor in vain (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve., leak (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

wasted; at a low ebb., wasteful (prodigal); penny wise and pound foolish.

desuetude, disusage; obsolescence, disuse; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation; newness to; new brooms., infraction of usage (unconformity); nonprevalence; "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].

be unaccustomed; leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured, unhabituated, untrained; new; green (unskilled); unhackneyed., unusual (unconformable); nonobservant; disused.