Definition of waive

• v. t. - A waif; a castaway.
• v. t. - A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
• v. t. - To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
• v. t. - To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
• v. t. - To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
• v. t. - To desert; to abandon.
• v. i. - To turn aside; to recede.