waive

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

waives

V_ing/Gerund

waiving

V_ed/pp

waivedwave

1.
(transitive)(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.
(archaic)(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).
5.
(obsolete)To move from side to side; to sway.
6.
(intransitive, obsolete)To stray, wander.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

waiveswave

1.
(obsolete)(obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
2.
(obsolete)A waif; a castaway.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

waivablewaiver waif

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English weyven (to avoid, renounce), from weyver (to abandon, allow to become a waif), from Old French waif (waif), from gaiver (to abandon), ultimately of Scandinavian/- origin; see weyver.