Definition of "waive" in English

verb

1. (transitive, law) 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.

2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.

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

3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).

4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).

verb

1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.

noun

1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.

2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.