disuse

"Any rare changes we do make are usually as a result of changes made by either authoritative bodies or when a name falls into disuse and another name comes into use," it said.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

After a brief resurgence during the Civil War, when it was used as a military route, the road fell into disuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

It fell into disuse after Congress granted an amnesty to most ex-rebels in 1872.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

This is why the Spanish, who arrived in the 1500s and set out to control the people by converting them to Catholicism, banned the cultivation and possession of the crop, which fell into disuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Its voice was low, and slow, and rough with disuse.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

They also came after Israel bombed the disused Abu Duhur airbase in the country's northwest earlier in the week, claiming it wanted to avert Turkish troops deploying to the facility.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

AFP on Saturday saw migrant minors milling around in a disused industrial park in Ceuta, while others dozed on the pavements outside.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Ries, the bankruptcy trustee, said offices in Texas were disused and decrepit—his foot went through the floor when he visited one location around two months after McClain’s death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The British Army covertly took over a disused part of the London Underground in central London to plan a Nato military response to possible future Russian attacks.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

Then deep folds in the ground were discovered unexpectedly, like the ruts of great giant-wheels or wide moats and sunken roads long disused and choked with brambles.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But how this can be avoided entirely, I know not, but by disusing their goods and letting them perish in their hands.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

The practice still continued in England of disusing tillage and throwing the land into enclosures, for the sake of pasture.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

What a hushing of voices and cleansing of wits and disusing of oaths was there after my little lady came to our rough Habitation!

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

But no mere sentimental or capricious dislike to the pig, on the part of any number of persons, could now procure an enactment for disusing that animal.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Oh the general shamefulness of disusing the feet God had given me.

From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells