waive.
To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
Meaning & usage
To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
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.
To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. To release [a player] onto the waiver wire
To put aside, avoid.
To outlaw (someone).
To abandon, give up (someone or something).
Where this word comes from
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.
To move from side to side; to sway.
To stray, wander.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.
A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
A waif; a castaway.
Where this word comes from
From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.
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