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disuse

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Disuse (noun) means the condition of no longer being used.

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The condition of no longer being used.

"The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown."

"The decline and eventual closing of the various industrial undertakings and the non-renewal of the L.N.W.R. lease led to the railway falling into disuse, and most of it has now been lifted." — William J. Skillern, The Brynmawr & Western Valleys Railway (1957)

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