What is another word for "waif"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "waif": abandon, abandonment, advantage, all, apart, aright, aside, away, behalf, behind, behoof, beneficial, benefit, best, blessing, boon, boot, cast, cede, cession, chance, commendable, common, consummation, course, culls, deed, derelict, dereliction, devoutly, disburden, discard, dismiss, dispensation, dispose, dispossess, disuse, divest, down, drop.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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