disused

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of disuse

adj

1. No longer in use.
   But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse, 1589, George Puttenham, chapter 14, in The Arte of English Poesie
   And now Love sang: but his was such a song, So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free, As souls disused in death’s sterility May sing when the new birthday tarries long. 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Willowwood”, in The House of Life, Stanza 2
   The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned To windy chaos, and we only find 1894, George Santayana, “On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy”, in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Duffield & Co., published 1906, page 55
   […] the disused, wrecked Byzantine churches that brooded, forlorn, lovely, ravished and apostate ghosts, about the hills and shores of that lost empire. 1956, Rose Macaulay, chapter 9, in The Towers of Trebizond, New York: New York Review Books, published 2003, page 72
   All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken. 1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, page 172
   The old station buildings and train shed at Redcar Central were taken out of use around 30 years ago and became a business centre, but are currently disused. Redcar & Cleveland Council has plans to improve the station, including better passenger facilities and retail units. January 2 2020, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption