See waive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Exhibiting what the dramatic critics call a \"fine restraint,\" he waives his timely opportunity for discourse upon the celebrated gyascutus, which, as any Northwestern tourist will tell you, haunts the slopes of the most precipitous mountains—always evading capture because its legs, shorter on the one side of the body than on the other, are peculiarly adapted to scooting up an inclined plane.",
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"ref": "2016 December 28, Dan Hernandez, “Is an even smaller New York apartment the key to sustainable living?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "While there’s no reliable data on micro-housing, some notable policies and projects are popping up on that front too. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg waived the city’s zoning standards to allow micro-apartments.",
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"word": "lemond"
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"word": "felad"
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"word": "tuku"
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
"word": "отка́зываться"
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
"word": "exonerar de"
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
"word": "avsäga sig"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to relinquish; to give up claim to",
"word": "avstå från"
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
"word": "afzien van"
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
"word": "laten varen"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
"word": "opgeven"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "verlassen"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
"word": "evitare"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "otbrasyvatʹ",
"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to put aside, avoid",
"word": "dejar de lado"
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"source": "Thesaurus:waive",
"word": "renounce"
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"source": "Thesaurus:waive",
"word": "terminate"
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"source": "Thesaurus:waive",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to sway",
"word": "zwenken"
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"ref": "1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?",
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"sense": "outlawed woman",
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],
"word": "fuorilegge"
}
],
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