Waive

Quick meaning: Waive is a verb meaning (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
5. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
6. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
7. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

Example Sentences

but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.

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

The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period

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

Word Forms

• waives
• waiving
• waived

Synonyms for waive

Depending on context, synonyms include abandon, abdicate, abjure, cede, dismiss, disregard.

Antonyms for waive

Common opposites include accept, admit, approve, submit, arrogate, claim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include relinquish, forfeit, give up, forgo, foreswear, render.

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