Definitions
1.verbTo relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego."If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law."
2.verbTo put aside, avoid.
3.verbTo outlaw (someone).
4.verbTo abandon, give up (someone or something).
5.verbTo move from side to side; to sway.
6.verbTo stray, wander.
7.verbTo move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely."The flag waved in the gentle breeze."
8.verbTo move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
9.verb(metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate."I waved goodbye from across the room."
10.verbTo have an undulating or wavy form.
11.verbTo raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
12.verbTo produce waves to the hair.
13.verbTo swing and miss at a pitch."Jones waves at strike one."
14.verbTo cause to move back and forth repeatedly."The starter waved the flag to begin the race."
15.verb(metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
16.verbTo fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
17.verbTo move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
18.nounA moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation."The wave traveled from the center of the lake before breaking on the shore."
19.nounThe ocean.
20.nounA moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
21.nounA shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions."Her hair had a nice wave to it."
22.nounAny of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
23.nounA loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands."He dismissed her with a wave of the hand."
24.nounA sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced."A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle."
25.noun(by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
26.noun(usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.