Thesaurus: waive

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1. v. t. A waif; a castaway.
2. v. t. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
3. v. t. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
4. v. t. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
5. v. t. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
6. v. t. To desert; to abandon.
7. v. i. To turn aside; to recede.
8. v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to
9. v. lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
10. 1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne. 2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note. 1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow. 2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. 3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. Burrill. Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. Burrill. To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.
11. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t.,3 (b), and the Note.
12. v:100 v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to