disused

«disused» in Mova's school dictionary: No longer used, especially a building, railway or mine: a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) No longer used, especially a building, railway or mine: a disused factory. tree →

2) Left empty and forgotten. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, disused railways, mines and buildings are mysterious or dangerous places; in safety lessons children are told to keep out of disused quarries, wells and buildings. Phrases: «a disused railway line», «a disused mine», «a disused warehouse».

examples

• We walked along the disused railway line, now a bike path. tree →
• Never play in a disused quarry; the water is very cold and deep. tree →
• The disused factory had broken windows. tree →
• Bats lived in the disused mine. tree →
• They turned the disused church into a library. tree →
• The old well was disused and covered with a lid. tree →

note

Say «dis-YOOZD». Not the same as «unused» (never used yet: an unused notebook) or «misused» (used wrongly). Disused things were used once but are not now.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «disused» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.