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disuse

noun as in state of non-use

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Khalusha was the prime suspect in the murder of more than 40 women whose mutilated bodies were discovered in a disused quarry that became a dumpsite in the capital, Nairobi.

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My Story - From Swansea to Stacey And Everything In Between in a disused pub car park, outside a cricket club in the middle of the night and in a car outside her house.

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Police and locals conducted extensive searches in the surrounding countryside – with potholers descending into some of the disused mineshafts with which the area is dotted.

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Some of the rubbish will have to be dug up and removed because the disused quarry is not an appropriate place to store industrial waste.

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That could include swapping some hotels for former military barracks or disused warehouses, as the health minister Stephen Kinnock suggested earlier on Sky News.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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