as in neglect
lack of use
since the car has experienced years of disuse, starting it up won't be easy
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Recent Examples of disuse
The rescission power fell into disuse under Bill Clinton.
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The Editors, National Review, 10 Mar. 2025
So many mainstream film characters, especially ones assigned to women, act like windup dolls that sputter into disuse when their scenes end.
—Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
By around 2010, the Cow Palace aged and fell into a state of financial disarray and physical disuse.
—Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
And devotion, for the male anglerfish, means gripping on with his teeth to her underside until their bodies fuse together, his eyes fall into disuse, and their bloodstreams become one.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Disuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disuse. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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