Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to disuse
Participle: disused
Gerund: disusing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | disuse |
| you | disuse |
| he;she;it | disuses |
| we | disuse |
| you | disuse |
| they | disuse |
Perfect
| I | have disused |
| you | have disused |
| he;she;it | has disused |
| we | have disused |
| you | have disused |
| they | have disused |
Past
| I | disused |
| you | disused |
| he;she;it | disused |
| we | disused |
| you | disused |
| they | disused |
Pluperfect
| I | had disused |
| you | had disused |
| he;she;it | had disused |
| we | had disused |
| you | had disused |
| they | had disused |
Future
| I | will disuse |
| you | will disuse |
| he;she;it | will disuse |
| we | will disuse |
| you | will disuse |
| they | will disuse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disused |
| you | will have disused |
| he;she;it | will have disused |
| we | will have disused |
| you | will have disused |
| they | will have disused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | disuse |
| you | disuse |
| he;she;it | disuse |
| we | disuse |
| you | disuse |
| they | disuse |
Perfect
| I | have disused |
| you | have disused |
| he;she;it | have disused |
| we | have disused |
| you | have disused |
| they | have disused |
Imperfect
| I | disused |
| you | disused |
| he;she;it | disused |
| we | disused |
| you | disused |
| they | disused |
Pluperfect
| I | had disused |
| you | had disused |
| he;she;it | had disused |
| we | had disused |
| you | had disused |
| they | had disused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would disuse |
| you | would disuse |
| he;she;it | would disuse |
| we | would disuse |
| you | would disuse |
| they | would disuse |
Perfect
| I | would have disused |
| you | would have disused |
| he;she;it | would have disused |
| we | would have disused |
| you | would have disused |
| they | would have disused |
Imperative
| you | disuse |
| we | Let's disuse |
| you | disuse |
Verbs conjugated like 'disuse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'disuse'
misuse,
defuse,
desume,
diffuse,
dilute,
disabuse,
disbase,
disburse,
discase,
discure,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French desuser, equivalent to dis- + use.
Sample Sentences
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Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual. [1790, Edmond Malone, The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, London: H. Baldwin, Volume I, p. 194, footnote:]
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1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, https://books.google.ca/books?id=TKvkAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.
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He was disused to hard work.
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Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine,
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Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine
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Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst
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Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first,
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I lose my end: for here as well as I
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A desperate may live, and a coward die. [1597, John Donne, The Calm, lines 39–44:]