WAYLAY


Meaning of WAYLAY in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Thousands of passengers were waylaid by the airline strike.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Amiss hovered in the gallery, hoping to waylay an informant.

He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner.

Her father waylaid Barre-to her chagrin-and boasted about his daughter's talent.

She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside.

She might just waylay him and hit him with something heavy!

They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory.

Yes, I could be in some danger - and there was an attempt to waylay me today.

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