Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disuse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disuse \Dis*use"\ (?; see {Dis-}), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Disused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disusing}.]
1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
``Disuse me from . . . pain.'' --Donne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disuse \Dis*use"\, n.
Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation;
desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy.
--Addison.
Church discipline then fell into disuse. --Southey.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disuse
n : the state of something that has been unused and neglected;
"the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: {neglect}]
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