disuse

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

Since its closure along with the rail works in 1986, it fell into disuse and disrepair.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024

Fewer cities are volunteering to spend billions on infrastructure that sometimes falls into disuse.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Its back room, once a gathering place for the miners and their families who populated the town a generation ago, has been locked up for many years, fallen to disuse.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

There was an entire wing in disuse, and marvelous bedrooms that were nearly of a size with all of Aunt Rose’s downstairs.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

On an adjacent island facing Setouchi are small disused bases that launched shinyo suicide motorboat attacks on Allied forces in World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

Hill, who was on BP19 with 30 Commando, expressed concern over the dust in a disused building at Skrunda-1 they were being asked to sleep in.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In dirty t-shirts and flimsy sandals, hundreds of unaccompanied minors slept outdoors in a disused industrial park in Ceuta after swimming to the Spanish territory from Morocco, AFP saw Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Once they’d snuck into a rave in a disused warehouse down in the Flats and danced until three, glow necklaces ringing their wrists and their throats.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

From an internal desire on the part of the creature disusing it, to be quit of an organ which it finds troublesome.

From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild

Of the asylums entirely disusing restraint, in some of them, as we have stated, the patients have been found tranquil and comfortable, and in others they have been unusually excited and disturbed.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

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