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They looked pretty well moth-eaten from disuse.Ils avaient l’air de pourrir, faute d’usage.Buchan, John / GreenmantleBuchan, John / Le prophète au manteau vertLe prophète au manteau vertBuchan, JohnGreenmantleBuchan, John© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
Investments of this type have the short-term allure of a new physical structure, but they risk falling into disuse where the government or community do not have sufficient resources to sustain them.Les investissements de cette nature ont l'attrait à court terme d'une nouvelle structure physique, mais ils risquent d'être laissés à l'abandon si les pouvoirs publics ou la communauté n'ont pas de moyens suffisants pour les entretenir.© 2010 IFChttp://www.ifc.org 22.11.2010© 2010 IFChttp://www.ifc.org 22.11.2010
The whole place smelt of mould and disuse.Cet intérieur sentait le moisi et l'abandon.Buchan, John / Thirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John / Les Trente-Neuf MarchesLes Trente-Neuf MarchesBuchan, JohnThirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John
It was clearly disused, for masses of rotting leaves covered it, and by the feel of it underfoot it was grass-grown.On ne passait certainement jamais par ce sentier, car il était couvert d’une couche épaisse de feuilles mortes, et en les foulant, j’eus l’impression que l’herbe y poussait.Buchan, John / GreenmantleBuchan, John / Le prophète au manteau vertLe prophète au manteau vertBuchan, JohnGreenmantleBuchan, John© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
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disuse
verb
Basic forms | |
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Past | disused |
Imperative | disuse |
Present Participle (Participle I) | disusing |
Past Participle (Participle II) | disused |
Present Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I disuse | we disuse |
you disuse | you disuse |
he/she/it disuses | they disuse |
Present Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I am disusing | we are disusing |
you are disusing | you are disusing |
he/she/it is disusing | they are disusing |
Present Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I have disused | we have disused |
you have disused | you have disused |
he/she/it has disused | they have disused |
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I have been disusing | we have been disusing |
you have been disusing | you have been disusing |
he/she/it has been disusing | they have been disusing |
Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I disused | we disused |
you disused | you disused |
he/she/it disused | they disused |
Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I was disusing | we were disusing |
you were disusing | you were disusing |
he/she/it was disusing | they were disusing |
Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I had disused | we had disused |
you had disused | you had disused |
he/she/it had disused | they had disused |
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I had been disusing | we had been disusing |
you had been disusing | you had been disusing |
he/she/it had been disusing | they had been disusing |
Future Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will disuse | we shall/will disuse |
you will disuse | you will disuse |
he/she/it will disuse | they will disuse |
Future Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will be disusing | we shall/will be disusing |
you will be disusing | you will be disusing |
he/she/it will be disusing | they will be disusing |
Future Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have disused | we shall/will have disused |
you will have disused | you will have disused |
he/she/it will have disused | they will have disused |
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I shall/will have been disusing | we shall/will have been disusing |
you will have been disusing | you will have been disusing |
he/she/it will have been disusing | they will have been disusing |
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice | |
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I should/would disuse | we should/would disuse |
you would disuse | you would disuse |
he/she/it would disuse | they would disuse |
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would be disusing | we should/would be disusing |
you would be disusing | you would be disusing |
he/she/it would be disusing | they would be disusing |
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have disused | we should/would have disused |
you would have disused | you would have disused |
he/she/it would have disused | they would have disused |
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice | |
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I should/would have been disusing | we should/would have been disusing |
you would have been disusing | you would have been disusing |
he/she/it would have been disusing | they would have been disusing |
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I am disused | we are disused |
you are disused | you are disused |
he/she/it is disused | they are disused |
Present Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I am being disused | we are being disused |
you are being disused | you are being disused |
he/she/it is being disused | they are being disused |
Present Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I have been disused | we have been disused |
you have been disused | you have been disused |
he/she/it has been disused | they have been disused |
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I was disused | we were disused |
you were disused | you were disused |
he/she/it was disused | they were disused |
Past Continuous, Passive Voice | |
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I was being disused | we were being disused |
you were being disused | you were being disused |
he/she/it was being disused | they were being disused |
Past Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I had been disused | we had been disused |
you had been disused | you had been disused |
he/she/it had been disused | they had been disused |
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will be disused | we shall/will be disused |
you will be disused | you will be disused |
he/she/it will be disused | they will be disused |
Future Perfect, Passive Voice | |
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I shall/will have been disused | we shall/will have been disused |
you will have been disused | you will have been disused |
he/she/it will have been disused | they will have been disused |
disuse
noun
Singular | Plural | |
Common case | disuse | *disuses |
Possessive case | disuse's | *disuses' |