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to stop someone (without their forewarning) to attack them or to talk

I worried that the gang might be waiting outside to waylay me.

She waited near the exit to waylay him and learn more about the event.
Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
The dancing had been going on for over half an hour and every time he tried to get near her either she got waylaid or he did.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
What he felt was the chilly recklessness that had come to waylay his heart.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
'What is the truth of it all?' demanded Miss Ellie Henderson waylaying Poirot.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
Took advantage of fog to waylay me.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
None of them could hope to waylay him.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
That young husband was waylaid and impressed, and sent to sea.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
She had waited to waylay me, I decided.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair: because of the way I've treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
I must go up the road and waylay him.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I know a place where we could waylay her, four of us with sharp swords ....
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Told her that Cook sent us to get crowleaf from the storage room by the barracks and that Marcus waylaid us on the way back.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
A Hutu militia group called FNL, a branch of PALIPEHUTU, had waylaid it.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
She asked him to pardon her for waylaying him at such an unseemly time.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
After dinner broke up, Jason and Piper tried to waylay Leo.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
'I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill me,'— FABIAN.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
"I've sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
I believe Riggs had a plan with those other men to waylay Nell and make off with her.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest

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