disused en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌdɪsˈjuːzd/
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Meanings
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(not-comparable) No longer in use.
It was to assist in the filling-in of the tunnel on the disused Patricroft-Clifton Junction line, which was the scene of a disaster in 1953 when part, below some houses in Swinton, caved in.
1955 June, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 439:And now Love sang: but his was such a song, So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free, As souls disused in death’s sterility May sing when the new birthday tarries long.
1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Willowwood”, in The House of Life, Stanza 2:The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned To windy chaos, and we only find The garnered husks of his disusèd words.
1894, George Santayana, “On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy”, in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Duffield & Co., published 1906, page 55:The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,
1589, George Puttenham, chapter 14, in The Arte of English Poesie:In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “Chapter 37”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.
1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, page 172:[…] the disused, wrecked Byzantine churches that brooded, forlorn, lovely, ravished and apostate ghosts, about the hills and shores of that lost empire.
1956, Rose Macaulay, chapter 9, in The Towers of Trebizond, New York: New York Review Books, published 2003, page 72:The old station buildings and train shed at Redcar Central were taken out of use around 30 years ago and became a business centre, but are currently disused. Redcar & Cleveland Council has plans to improve the station, including better passenger facilities and retail units.
2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption:
Synonyms
outdated · defunct · antiquated
Translations (10)
da nedlagt (no longer in use) · fi käytöstä poistettu (no longer in use) · es desusado (no longer in use) · it desueto (no longer in use) · nb nedlagt (no longer in use) · pl nieużywany (no longer in use) · pt desusado (no longer in use) · fr désaffecté (no longer in use) · da som ikke bruges mere (no longer in use) · fr désuet (no longer in use)