Crossword-Solution: DISUSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DISUSE | anagram | ISSUED, ISUSED |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DISUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
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.
Rapidly becoming obsolete as the ARC compression method is falling into disuse, having been replaced by newer compression techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
… 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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1962–2022).