waive

1. 1

   To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.transitive

   • If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
2. 2

   To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.; To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.transitive

3. 3

   To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.; To release [a player] onto the waiver wireCanadaUStransitive

   • Nearly 1,200 players will be cut, waived, or sent packing, and the scramble to land on a practice squad or catch on elsewhere will move fast.
   • Jaden Ivey has played his last game in Chicago, with the Bulls waiving Ivey following his controversial comments on social media about the LGBTQ community.
4. 4

   To put aside, avoid.archaic

   • […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
5. 5

   To outlaw (someone).obsolete

6. 6

   To abandon, give up (someone or something).obsolete

   • but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.

syn. abandon · abdicate · abjure · cede · dismiss · disregard · dissolve · forgo · give up · let go · put aside · relinquish

ant. accept · admit · approve · submit

1. 1

   To move from side to side; to sway.obsolete

2. 2

   To stray, wander.intransitiveobsolete

syn. abandon · abdicate · abjure · cede · dismiss · disregard · dissolve · forgo · give up · let go · put aside · relinquish

ant. accept · admit · approve · submit

1. 1

   A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.obsolete

2. 2

   A waif; a castaway.obsolete

   • But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?