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say it: wayv
waive is a verb meaning "do without or cease to hold or adhere to". It is pronounced /ˈweɪv/ — wayv. It carries 2 recorded senses.
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
“We are dispensing with formalities”
“relinquish the old ideas”
lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
“you've forfeited your right to name your successor”
“forfeited property”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for waive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.