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

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

Congress did remove that disability from most Confederates in 1872, and the provision fell into disuse.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

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

The museum shut its previous London Wall site in December 2022 as part of a £437m project to move into the vast disused Victorian market building.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

Major Joe Harris was tasked with getting a full military command post into a disused Tube station without anyone noticing.

From BBC ● May 24, 2026

One caused a fire at a disused oil storage site in eastern Latvia.

From Barron's ● May 14, 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

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 Hume, David

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

And finally, it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

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 Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)