waive
verb
[ weɪv ]
• refrain from insisting on or using (a right or claim).
• "he will waive all rights to the money"
Similar:
relinquish,
renounce,
give up,
abandon,
reject,
surrender,
yield,
cede,
do without,
dispense with,
set/put aside,
abdicate,
abjure,
sacrifice,
refuse,
turn down,
spurn,
sign away,
Origin:
Middle English (originally as a legal term relating to removal of the protection of the law): from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French gaiver ‘allow to become a waif, abandon’.
