waving
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Definitions ofwaving
- To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
Example: "If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law."
- To put aside, avoid.
- To outlaw (someone).
- To abandon, give up (someone or something).
- To move from side to side; to sway.
- To stray, wander.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
Example: "The flag waved in the gentle breeze."
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- (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.
Example: "I waved goodbye from across the room."
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
Example: "Jones waves at strike one."
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
Example: "The starter waved the flag to begin the race."
- (metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- The motion of something that waves.
- Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.
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