waive

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• transitive v. To give up (a claim or right) voluntarily; relinquish. See Synonyms at relinquish.
• transitive v. To refrain from insisting on or enforcing (a rule or penalty, for example); dispense with: "The original ban on private trading had long since been waived” ( William L. Schurz).
• transitive v. To put aside or off temporarily; defer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
• n. Obsolete form of waif.
• v. To outlaw (someone).
• v. To abandon, give up (someone or something).
• v. To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
• v. To put aside, avoid.
• v. To move from side to side; to sway.
• v. To stray, wander.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• To refuse; forsake; decline; shun.
• To move; remove; push aside.
• To relinquish; forsake; forbear to insist on or claim; defer for the present; forgo: as, to waive a subject; to waive a claim or privilege.
• In law:
• To relinquish intentionally (a known right), or intentionally to do an act inconsistent with claiming (it). See waiver.
• To throw away, as a thief stolen goods in his flight.
• In old English law, to put out of the protection of the law, as a woman.
• To depart; deviate.
• n. A waif; a poor homeless wretch; a castaway.
• n. In law, a woman put out of the protection of the law.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to
• v. lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime