waive

waive is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A waif; a castaway. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A waif; a castaway.
2. transitive verb. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
3. transitive verb. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
4. transitive verb. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
5. transitive verb. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
6. transitive verb. To desert; to abandon.
7. intransitive verb. To turn aside; to recede.
8. verb. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

   "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"

   "forfeited property"

   Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo

9. verb. do without or cease to hold or adhere to

   "We are dispensing with formalities"

   "relinquish the old ideas"

   Synonyms: forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish

Synonyms

forego, forfeit, forgo, foreswear, relinquish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in waive:

aview

Common word forms

waived, waiver, waives, waiving

Words from these letters

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