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- English Word Waive Definition To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
- English Word Waived Definition of Waive
- English Word Waiver Definition The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
- English Word Waiving Definition of Waive
- English Word Waivure Definition See Waiver.
- English Word Waiwode Definition See Waywode.
- English Word Wake Definition The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
- English Word Wake Definition To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
- English Word Wake Definition To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- English Word Wake Definition To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
- English Word Wake Definition To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- English Word Wake Definition To rouse from sleep; to awake.
- English Word Wake Definition To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- English Word Wake Definition To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
- English Word Wake Definition To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- English Word Wake Definition The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
- English Word Wake Definition The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- English Word Wake Definition An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
- English Word Wake Definition The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
- English Word Wake-robin Definition Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
- English Word Waked Definition of Wake
- English Word Wakeful Definition Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
- English Word Waken Definition To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
- English Word Waken Definition To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
- English Word Waken Definition To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken.
- English Word Wakened Definition of Waken
- English Word Wakener Definition One who wakens.
- English Word Wakening Definition The revival of an action.
- English Word Wakening Definition of Waken
- English Word Wakening Definition The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.