Giving and transferring
Synonyms for waive
Synonyms for waive: forgo and relinquish. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for waive
Interchangeable with waive in this sense
Audited under waive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one waive carries in that sense.
- forgoverb, in the sense "to voluntarily give up a right, claim, or requirement"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name waive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- relinquishrelinquish is a verb in the sense "do without or cease to hold or adhere to"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under waive and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to voluntarily give up a right, claim, or requirement
The landlord agreed to waive the late fee since it was the tenant's first missed payment.
The true synonym
forgo
Same sentence, swapped: The landlord agreed to forgo the late fee since it was the tenant's first missed payment.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for waive in the sentence quoted.
- impose
- dispute
- postpone
Where waive turns up in the game
waive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where waive is the trap
- prolongverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sustain, in the sense "lengthen or extend in duration or space", with waive sitting one tile away.
- relinquishverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is release, in the sense "release, as from one's grip", and waive is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play waive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so waive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because giving and transferring is the company waive keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. waive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.