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waylaid

verb as in intercept, ambush

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They may have been waylaid by another mystery: What do website-clicking sports fans want?

With this Henriette retired and the next morning on her way to early church I waylaid Norah.

As Aunt Zélie was on her way upstairs that night she was waylaid in the dimly lighted hall by three ghostly figures.

They had been out, from the fort at Wheeling, on a scouting party, and were waylaid at a pass called the narrows.

I waylaid him privately and asked if there was anything I could get or do—a tonic, a change.

Supposing he had been waylaid and surrounded by black-fellows!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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