disused

Preposition: by

• century: The site was probably disused by the early 14th century; by the 16th Leland was unaware of any castle here.

Modifying Another Word

• now: You come to a bridge over the now disused Great North of Scotland railroad line, which once served all the coastal towns.
• largely: The locks were abandoned in 1966, have been largely disused since 1962.
• currently: A number of the playing fields, e.g. Park Avenue, are currently disused.
• long: A large kitchen, long disused linked to a strangely cool room used a s a pantry occupied one segment of the level.
• mostly: As shown above, the United Kingdom has an old, mostly disused blasphemy law which is rarely evoked.
• once: At Leagram Farm, Chipping, organic cheeses are now manufactured from within the confines of another once disused barn.

Preposition: for

• year: The well has been disused for some years ' .
• number: Many of those facilities seemed to have been disused for a number of years.
• time: Inside the room was pretty much the same as the previous except that this room appeared to have been disused for some time.

Modifies a noun

• quarry: The disused quarry is on the right hand side.
• airfield: The disused airfield is still apparent on the right.
• viaduct: Tweed Viaduct 1024 x 674 100K Autumn sunshine on the disused railroad viaduct.
• siding: In the immediate foreground are the now disused sidings of Blue Circle ( Portland Cement ).
• aerodrome: In Toulouse, the finish was situated on a disused aerodrome and the next morning's start was in a business park.
• railroad: The line into Boston is dead straight with the disused railroad always clinging to the north bank.

Used with adjective complement

• lie: The site had lain disused for almost 50 years, during which time a process of self-regeneration had occurred.
• become: The forge is also shown on Bowen's Map of 1778 bt the Tithe map of 1839 shows that it had become disused.
• stand: Goods traffic ceased in May 1962, but like many such buildings, the shed stood disused for many years.
• remain: Marischal College has been empty for some years, and is likely to remain disused indefinitely if ACC doesn't move in.