waylay
verb (used with object)
to intercept or attack from ambush, as in order to rob, seize, or slay.
had waylaid
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past perfectof waylay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By December the Broncos weren’t rolling but staggering, bedeviled by an injury epidemic that had waylaid three O-line starters and the team’s top two tight ends.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
That good lady had waylaid the schoolchildren at her gate and demanded of them how they liked their new teacher.
From Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
She had waylaid the well-known figure from whom she had formerly fled, and her end was attained.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
Not two rods away, his face clearly in sight, his eyes closed, dead asleep, lay the figure of the man who had waylaid him.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge
She told, with some laughter, how she had waylaid Rosalie on her return from market to peep into her basket of provisions.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
