Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
A waif; a castaway.
- 2transitive verb
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
- 3transitive verb
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
- 4transitive verb
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
- 5transitive verb
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
- 6transitive verb
To desert; to abandon.
- 7intransitive verb
To turn aside; to recede.
- 8verb
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"
- 9verb
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
"We are dispensing with formalities"
"relinquish the old ideas"
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