waive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.
Inflected forms:
form: waives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wave
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.
The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period
While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.
gloss: To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To put aside, avoid.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
gloss: To outlaw (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To abandon, give up (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
Synonyms: abandon
abdicate
abjure
cede
dismiss
disregard
dissolve
forgo
give up
let go
put aside
relinquish
renounce
surrender
terminate
yield
Antonyms: accept
admit
approve
submit
Related words: waiver
waif
Derived words: waivable
waiver
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отказвам се
roman: otkazvam se
lang: Dutch
word: afzien van
lang: Dutch
word: laten varen
lang: Dutch
word: opgeven
lang: Dutch
word: verzaken
lang: Finnish
word: luopua
lang: French
word: renoncer à
lang: German
word: verzichten
lang: German
word: aufgeben
lang: Hungarian
word: lemond
lang: Hungarian
word: nem vesz igénybe
lang: Hungarian
word: nem él (vele)
lang: Hungarian
word: felad
lang: Italian
word: rinunciare
lang: Māori
word: tuku
lang: Polish
word: zrezygnować
lang: Russian
word: отка́зываться
roman: otkázyvatʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: dispensar
lang: Spanish
word: renunciar a
lang: Spanish
word: no aplicar
lang: Spanish
word: no exigir
lang: Spanish
word: prescindir de
lang: Spanish
word: exonerar de
lang: Swedish
word: avsäga sig
lang: Swedish
word: avstå från