Antonyms for waive
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1. waive

   Antonyms:
   affirm, allege, assert, asseverate, assure, aver, avouch, avow, certify, claim, declare, depose, express, inform, maintain, predicate, pronounce, propound, protest, say, set forth, specify, state, swear, tell, testify

   Synonyms:
   contradict, contravene, controvert, deny, disprove, dispute, gainsay, oppose, refute, repudiate, retract

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1. waive

   Antonyms:
   press, urge, enforce, assert, claim, vindicate

   Synonyms:
   forego, abandon, remit, cancel, drop, relinquish, castoff

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1. waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense withverb

   do without or cease to hold or adhere to

   "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"

   Synonyms:
   quit, foreswear, predate, antedate, spare, dispense with, part with, release, throw overboard, renounce, forego, give up, let go, let go of, resign, forgo, relinquish, forfeit, antecede, precede, free

2. forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, foregoverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   spare, antedate, allow, abandon, forfeit, vacate, precede, release, give up, resign, forgo, kick, throw in, predate, surrender, part with, fall by the wayside, lay off, throw overboard, dispense with, cede, stop, relinquish, throw in the towel, deliver, cease, chuck up the sponge, renounce, discontinue, deep-six, drop out, free, antecede, drop by the wayside, forego, quit, foreswear

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1. waiveverb

   Synonyms:
   relinquish, forego, surrender

How to use waive in a sentence?

1. John Cornyn:

   John Cornyn can't really waive executive privilege — it's not John Cornyn to privilege, it's the President's privilege.

2. Jaime Rodriguez:

   Our government is being completely open, but we can't waive their (taxes) for 20 years if they're going to put me in prison for allowing it.

3. Chief Executive Brian Molefe:

   Eskom's financial position does not allow us to waive penalties or renegotiate contracts simply because of the sake of rescuing a particular mine. We are not in the business of rescuing mines.

4. Hardik Shah:

   A possible solution is to waive the goods and services tax (GST) compensation cess..on coal.

5. Jerry Nadler:

   The President says The President doesn't want people talking about certain things, but they have already talked about those things to Mueller and to others. So that means if there was any executive privilege it's been waived, you can not waive the privilege and then reassert it, so there is no legal excuse whatsoever... The only question is how long they will draw it out in court before the subpoena is followed, and how contemptuous of Congress this administration will be.

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