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Shrug vs Waive - What's the difference?

shrug | waive |

As nouns the difference between shrug and waive

is that shrug is a lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference while waive is (obsolete|legal) a woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman or waive can be .

As verbs the difference between shrug and waive

is that shrug is (ambitransitive) to raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc while waive is (obsolete) to outlaw (someone) or waive can be (obsolete) to move from side to side; to sway.

shrug

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference.
    • He dismissed my comment with a shrug .
  • A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.

    • Verb

    (shrugg)
  • (ambitransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
    • ''I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged .
    When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.
  • * Addison
    • He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.

    waive

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (waiv)
  • (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  • (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  • *
  • (legal) To 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.
  • *
  • To put aside, avoid.
  • *
    • Derived terms
    * waivable
    Related terms
    * waiver * waif

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) weyven, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (waiv)
  • (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  • (obsolete) To stray, wander.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Merchant's Tale", Canterbury Tales :
    • ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) waive, probably as the past participle of (weyver), as Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  • (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
    • (John Donne)

    Etymology 4

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1624 , (John Donne), Devotions upon Emergent Occasions :
    • I know, O Lord, the ordinary discomfort that accompanies that phrase, that the house is visited, and that thy works, and thy tokens are upon the patient; but 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?