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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

Yet as bots like ChatGPT become increasingly popular and sophisticated, Vincent and some of his colleagues wonder what will happen if Wikipedia, outflanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse.

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

Along the disused line from Woljeong-ri towards Baengmagoji station to the south -- the section to be restored under the peace project -- vegetation crowds both sides of the tracks, nearly swallowing a stone wall.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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

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

I’ve done some of what I call my own work as well, although hesitantly: my hands are out of practice, my eyes disused.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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

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

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