Waive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give up (a claim or right) voluntarily; relinquish. See Synonyms at relinquish.
  • v. To refrain from insisting on or enforcing (a rule or penalty, for example); dispense with: "The original ban on private trading had long since been waived” ( William L. Schurz).
  • v. To put aside or off temporarily; defer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To outlaw (someone).
  • v. To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  • v. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
  • v. To put aside, avoid.
  • v. To move from side to side; to sway.
  • v. To stray, wander.
  • n. A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  • n. Obsolete form of waif.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A waif; a castaway.
  • n. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  • v. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  • v. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  • v.
  • v. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  • v. To desert; to abandon.
  • verb-intransitive. To turn aside; to recede.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To refuse; forsake; decline; shun.
  • To move; remove; push aside.
  • To relinquish; forsake; forbear to insist on or claim; defer for the present; forgo: as, to waive a subject; to waive a claim or privilege.
  • In law:
  • To relinquish intentionally (a known right), or intentionally to do an act inconsistent with claiming (it). See waiver.
  • To throw away, as a thief stolen goods in his flight.
  • In old English law, to put out of the protection of the law, as a woman.
  • To depart; deviate.
  • n. A waif; a poor homeless wretch; a castaway.
  • n. In law, a woman put out of the protection of the law.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  • v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
  • Verb Form
    waived    waives    waiving   
    Hyponym
    kick    give up   
    Form
    waivable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waif    castaway    relinquish    refuse    forego    reject    desert    abandon    recede   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dave    Wave    aftershave    behave    brave    cave    concave    crave    deprave    engrave