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5 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb do without or cease to hold or adhere to
verb lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
originFrom Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0