verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Thousands of passengers were waylaid by the airline strike.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amiss hovered in the gallery, hoping to waylay an informant.
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He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner.
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Her father waylaid Barre-to her chagrin-and boasted about his daughter's talent.
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She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside.
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She might just waylay him and hit him with something heavy!
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They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory.
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Yes, I could be in some danger - and there was an attempt to waylay me today.