Crossword-Solution: DISUSE 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Disuse v. t. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
Disuse v. t. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.
Disuse n. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation;
desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

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DISUSE anagram ISSUED, ISUSED

We have 33 clues for the answer “DISUSE”

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the state of not being used 1 answer
Cause of atrophy 1 answer
Cessation of practice 1 answer
Fate of some old ways 1 answer
Rust cause, perhaps 1 answer
Something to fall into 1 answer
State of abandonment 1 answer
Toy fate 1 answer
What obsolete things fall into 1 answer
What old things fall into 1 answer
lack of application 1 answer
State of neglect 2 answers
Obsolescence 2 answers
Desuetude. 3 answers
Neglected state 3 answers
CAUTION AGAINST NEGLECT 10 answers
ARCHETYPAL ABANDONMENT SI 10 answers
A MISTAKE RESULTING FROM NEGLECT 10 answers
unsuitability 13 answers
unfitness 18 answers
inutility 53 answers
uselessness 58 answers
Ditch 60 answers
Abandonment 62 answers
Decay 65 answers
abeyance 66 answers
discontinuance 66 answers
Terminate 71 answers
Neglect 74 answers
worthlessness 75 answers
Inaction 75 answers
Inactivity 81 answers
ignorance 88 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with DISUSE (5)

The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with grey sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere fallen into long disuse; and it is easy to conclude, from the general slovenliness of the place, that this is a sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Rapidly becoming obsolete as the ARC compression method is falling into disuse, having been replaced by newer compression techniques.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
His power to reason has relieved them of many of their duties, and so they have, to some extent, atrophied, as have the muscles which move the ears and scalp, merely from disuse.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The right hand jealous of the left! The heart jealous of the soul! But for that matter, the Creole husband is never jealous; with him the gangrene passion is one which has become dwarfed by disuse.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
And these I soon found were not as the treasures of the miser, that lie in unprofitable disuse, for day by day, and hour by hour, the golden juice ascended from the dark recesses of the cellar to the uppermost brains of the friars.
Eothen A. W. Kinglake 2008

Quotes with DISUSE (3)

I remember one incident which bears upon this part of the treatise. The gentleman who gave it to me had asked to see my tobacco-pipe; he examined it carefully, and when he came to the little protuberance at the bottom of the bowl he seemed much delighted, and exclaimed that it must be rudimentary. I asked him what he meant." Sir," he answered, "this organ is identical with the rim at the bottom of a cup; it is but another form of the same function. Its purposes must have been…
Samuel Butler Erewhon
What’d you need?""Desuetude.""Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse.""Thanks, man.""That it?""Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.
James Sallis Drive
… she claimed it’s a sign of God’s mercy that He won’t let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can’t bear and won’t let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back.
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, WSJ.

Used 35 times in crossword archives (1962–2022).