waive

1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.Examples: "If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law."; "Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a "fine restraint," he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane."; "The federal government will ban the import of live northern snakeheads beginning Friday, waiving the normal 30-day waiting period"transitive

2. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.transitive

3. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.Examples: "[…] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others"archaic

4. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).obsolete

5. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).Examples: "but she might be waived, and held as abandoned."obsolete