noun. The state of not being used or of being no longer in use.

noun. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise: as, disuse of wine; disuse of sea-bathing; disuse of words.

noun. Cessation of custom or observance; desuetude.

To cease to use; neglect or omit to employ; abandon or discard from exercise or practice.

noun. Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude.

transitive verb. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

transitive verb. To disaccustom; -- with to or from.

noun. The state of not being used; neglect.

verb. To cease the use of.

noun. the state of something that has been unused and neglected

""It is probable that _disuse has been the main agent in rendering organs rudimentary_," or in other words that Lamarck was quite right -- nor does one see why if disuse is after all the main agent in rendering an organ rudimentary, use should not have been the main agent in developing it -- but let that pass."

disused  

declination  decline  

omission  

Bruce  Chartreuse  Duce  Luce  Seuss  

demoralization  deprivation  disrepute  domestication  estrangement  

abandonment  abjure  absentation  antiquation  casting away  

disused  disuses  disusing