WAYLAY

[verb] [T] [past:] waylaid - to wait for and then stop (someone), esp. either to talk to them or to attack themA woman on her way to deposit $120 000 in a bank was waylaid by two men who punched her and snatched her handbag yesterday. [T]I meant to leave earlier but I was waylaid on the way out of a meeting by my manager. [T]